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FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1941
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THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE SEVEN
Are We Following France?
By GEORGE A. DONDERO
(In the House of Representatives)
With a wave of strikes in the de
fense industries of the nation affect
ing' most seriously the effort of oui
Government and people to produce
the weapons of defense which be
comes more apparent day by day that
the greatest danger to our Nation
and our country is the enemies who
are within our own borders.
France is a prostrate nation. She
is on her knees. Her people have
been bowed with the humility of de
feat. The dagger that struck her in
the back was the enemies that lived
within her own borders. Communists
and labor racketeers influenced by
them are seriously threatening the
peace, tranquility, and every effort
on the part of our Government to
maintain itself at home and abroad.
Every indication here points to the
fact that step by step we are follow
ing in the footsteps of France unless
the President takes a determined and
definite stand to overwhelm and con
trol the subversive elements in our
midst. This mighty Republic, with
the hope it has held out to the dis
tressed people of the world, may suf
fer the same fate of the Republic of
France. Eternal vigilance is still the
price of freedom.
We have read in the public press
of the modified sit-down strike desig
nated by certain union leaders as a
slow-down strike, in the seizure of
the River Rouge plant of* the Ford
Motor company.
We have all read, Mr. Speaker, the
last few days in the public press of
the sitoning of the chief executive of
the State of Wisconsin and the clos
ing of the Allis-Chalmers plant, af
ter it was reopened upon the insist
ence of our national defense direct
ors.
As further positive proof, last week
the Communists in labor unions are
deliberately sabotaging our nation
al defense efforts. I cite the testi
mony taken before the Smith investi
gating committee, to the effect that
Communists in labor unions were pro
tected by the National Labor Rela
tions Board.
The records of the Labor Boaird
prove that trial examiners refused to
permit attorneys to question Com
munists about their party activities
and beliefs.
As further positive proof, last week
the attorney for the Ford Motor Co.,
appeared at a hearing before the Na
tional Labor Relations Board in De
troit, requested subpoenas of certain
individuals for the purpose of prov
ing that they were active in the Com
munist movement and that the pur
pose of their so-called labor efforts
against Ford were in furtherance of
the Communists world mass revolu
tion, which is to control vital facili
ties of industry, commerce, and
transportation. The subpoenas for
these men were not issued by the La
bor Board.
The Ford Motor Co. is engaged 1 in
the national defense effort. As fur
ther proof that Communists in labor
unions are deliberately sabotaging the
national dfense effort, I cite the pre
sent strike in the Ford plant, started
despite the fact that the National
Labor Relations Board only last week
conducted a hearing regarding plans
for an election in the River Rouge
Plant at the request of the CIO. I
cite also the fact that the Ford River
Rouge plant was seized, roads lead
ing to it blocked, and workers at
tempting to go to their jobs were
assaulted.
If this is not an attempt to sab
otage, why was the strike called now ?
Why did they not await the decision
of the Labor Board? If this is not
an attempt to sabotage, why did they
not await the action of the Govern
ment’s constituted authority? ■
Now, Mr. Speaker, permit me to
point to you the parallel situation in
France. For months after the fall
of France the American people had
the wool pulled over their eyes by
stories of treachery among French
generals and weird, sensational
stories of bridges being deliberately
jammed with civilians who blocked
soldiers. The tragic thing about all
that propaganda was that it covered
up the real story.
And the real story is that Moscow
did even more to beat France than
did Hitler.
At last the President in his Jack-
son Day speech, put the blame where
it belongs when he said:
We have seen how the workers
of France were betrayed by their
so-called champions, the Com
munists. For no matter what
Communist lips have to say their
actions have proved that in their
hearts they care {nothing for the
real rights of labor.
What really did happen in France?
Instead of a general statement
about Communists selling the workers
of France down the river, I am going
to give you, chapter and verse, the
details of what actually happened.
During the world depression in the
early 1930’s the voting tide swung
leftward in France, and Socialist
Leon Blum became Prime Minister in
1930.
The Communists first move there
was political. Their second was in
dustrial.
On the eve of taking office, Blum
made this pledge to the Socialist
Party—
Capitalism is doomed; we are
now going to try to assure pas
sage from a capitalist to a Social
ist state. The time lias passed
when it is no longer possible for
the middle-class bourgeois to save
their society.
Although Leon Blum was a So
cialist and not a Communist, he ,too,
had smart ideas about political sub
terfuge. When he came into office
he told his brother Socialists that—
For the present we must work
within the capitalists regime,
while you, through propaganda,
work to prepare men’s minds for
the coming ,of that Socialist sys
tem which is our aim.
With Germany stepping up mass
tank and airplane production, Mr.
Blum did not have time to lisien to
the French military experts. He was
too busy thinking about textbook so
cialism, and so he brushed aside the
French military with this statement—
The peace we want is a disarm
ed peace. We shall do everything
possible to make out of this vic
tory of the popular front the first
victory of socialism.
At that point the 72 Communist
deputies went to work on Mr. Blum;
and to get their votes he had to fall
in with their plans.
It was the Communists who invent
ed the sit-down strike. In France
they called it the stay-in strike. In
both cases it was a subtle step in
the Communist progrram to sabotage
productive facilities.
Coudron Aircraft Factory was the
first to have a sit-down strike. It
spread to Renault Motors, where the
workers hoisted the Red flag and lock
ed out 3,000 other workers who want
ed to go in to their jobs.
What is happening here today ? One
of the first moves of the extremists
who seized the Ford Motor Co., Riv
er Rouge plant was physically to drive
workers from their places and then
block off, with barricades of auto
mobiles, the roads leading into the
plant. Workers who wanted to work
were beaten.
At the Michelin tire plant in France
7,000 Communists and Communist-
inspired workers struck in protest
against the dismissal of a “red” agi
tator, who spent full time agitating
and no time working.
According to press dispatches, the
labor leaders gave the alleged dis
missal of agitators as a cause of the
strike at the Ford Motor Co. River
Rouge plant.
It is significant that Prime Min
ister Blum made no move against
these Communists holding the Miche
lin plant ; but when rightist workers
forced the Communists out of the
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I was proud to see a good attend
ance at church Sunday night. It was
much better than usual. Sunday
school and church services will be
held at the usual hours next Sunday
afternoon.
Easter is now drawing near, and we
are all looking forward to it. I don’t
think people ought to work on Good
Friday, for that was the day Christ
was crucified. Easter is a time for
people to enjoy themselves, if they
enoy themselves in the right way.
Good Friday is a sad day, to think
that Christ was nailed to the Cross
to suffer and die for us. We shall be
saved if we believe on Him.
On Easter Sunday morning Christ
rose which was a day of rejoicing.
There is only one way to enter into
the kingdom of heaven and that is to
believe on Jesus Christ.
The wells in this community are
low for the season due to the light
rain over the winter.
The farmers are later this year till
ing the soil than they have been.
Your St. Phillips correspondent
wishes everyone a very happy Easter
season.
Claremont-Ferrand plant he sent
troops to evict the rightists and
leave the Communists in control. This
continued to be his policy as the left
wing took over industry.
While German factories continued
to hum, the French strike spread to
the aviation works at Villa Coubay,
the Bregnet and Block aviation plants
the Ferrodo, Lockheed, and 'home
and Rhone aviation plants.
Barricades were thrown up around
the Hotchkiss motor works.
The Communist workers took ever
the important metallurg cal works at
Marseilles and thp Frencn unit of the
Goodrich Rubber Co.
Ten thousand workers demonstrat
ed in support of the Communists out
side the Valenciennes metal factories.
If workers had no strike in their own
factory, the Communists inspired them
to stop production in what were call
ed sympathetic strikes.
On Saturday, March 29, 1941, hand
bills were passed out in Chicago to
C. I. O. workers not employed at the
Harvester plant to assemble in such
numbers at the Harvester plant that
it could not reopen.
In the meantime the French radi
cals had gone after tne navy and the
merchant marine at the great Medit
erranean naval base in Toulon. The
Communists drove the citizens in
doors, then marched through the
streets singing the Internationale.
They stormed the naval works and
left more than 200 casualties in the
streets.
In western France they stormed the
naval arsenal at Brest. The arsenal
had to close down, but the guards
were successful in defending the
mighty battleship Dunkerque, then
under construction. A strike tied up
the great liners Normandie, Paris,
and He de France, the methods being
not unlike those employed by Harry
Bridlges on our west coast. At St.
Nazaire—a port modernized during
the World War by millions of Ameri
can dollars—five navy yards were
flying the red flag as employees oc
cupied the plants.
In our own country Marcel Scherer,
a Communist, has attempted—with
how much success, I do not know—
to get his C. I. O. union into our navy
yaids and control that union. He is
the organizer of the Federation of
Architects, Engineers, Chemists, and
Technicians. In a letter sent to the
Secretary of the Navy, then Mr.
Charles Edison, and in a telegram
sent to Mr. Roosevelt on April 10,
1940, this organization defended its
claim to the right of collective bar
gaining in American navy yards.
Scherer joined the Communist Party
while he was at City College in New
York in 1931 and was Communist
candidate for alderman in Brooklyn.
In Marseilles, Communist sailors
strqck and tied up and seized 60
French merchant vessels. Everywhere
on wharves and warehouses flew the
blood-red flag of the Communist In
ternationale.
When patriotic Frenchmen began
to hoist the flag of France in oppo
sition, the Blum government tried to
avoid conflict by forbidding stores to
sell the national emblem.
Leon Jauhaux, head of the French
Confederation of Workers, was a pa
triot who never wanted strikes, to go
to a length where they would hurt his
country.
He did what some of our own la
bor leaders and politicians have been
tempted to do in order to get a vote
majority for themselves—to accept
the cooperation of Communists and
their sympathizers. They think they
can use “reds” while they need them,
and then put them on the sidelines.
It did not work- in France. It will
not work here.
But there is still time for the peo
ple of the United States to take heed
of the mistake of France.
The first thing we need to do is to
ferret out these Communists in the
labor movement. We must not be
hindered in this by government
agencies. We must let the workers
themselves understand the true con
ditions.
We must let the workers know we
are not going to permit these Com
munists to threaten them into sub
mission and at the same time sabo
tage a defense program on which
America depends and on which we are
sacrificing billions of dollars.
Minister Writes About The Home
Town Paper
By REV. GEORGE TRUE BAKER
Did you ever stop to think what our
hometown paper means to our com
munity? It’s like a lot of other
things we don’t appreciate until it’s
gone. I know that the title of owner
ship is in the name of the publisher,
but in one sense we all have an in
terest in it. No doubt the publisher
prints if for the dollars and cents it
affords him in buying the necessities
of life, but stopping to think of it,
maybe that’s the reason I am work
ing ,at my job and operating my busi
ness. To put it in few words, he is
no more mercenary that the rest of
us.
It always was my opinion that any
business institution that subsisted off
of the patronage of j. community
owed a certain civic responsibility to
that community. From the very na
ture of some businesses this civic ob
ligation is easier to meet. A newspap
er occupies an almost unique position
in this respect. Can you think of
any private enterprise that can be
used to a greater extent as a means
of civic betterment and public ser
vice, and still make a profit for its
proprietor, than our hometown news
paper? This brings up another con
sideration. A free-flowing fountain
of sparkling pure water isn’t worth
much unless people drink the water.
The community service possibilities
of a newspaper might as well not ex
ist if the community doesn’t use them.
Now we can come down to earth and
grapple with the realities of the sub
ject.
What makes a newspaper a news
paper anyway? The answer is sim
ple—NEWS. Of course the big dail
ies gather news from pole to pole and
all in between, but a small town
weekly prints only local news—news
about me and you and the family next
door. The big dailies hire agencies
and reporters to father news from
far-flung area, but our local paper
is not able to hire either. How In the
world then will the dinner I gave last
week, or the visit Uncle Oscar and
Aunt Susie paid us on Thursday, or
the recent and important meeting of
our civic or religious organization get
into the paper. All three events were
an astounding success to our way of
thinking, and maybe some of our
neighbors have a friendly curiosity to
know the fact also. The only way
news like this can get into the paper
is for you and me £o stop at the news
paper office and give it to the editor.
Everybody is curious about everybody
else. Murders and weddings and oth
er calamities always thrust them
selves into newsprint, but the little
things you do, the little visits you
make, and a hundred other small but
interesting items from a human inter
est standpoint never get in because
you and I don’t put them in. Bring
in the news. The editor will find a
place for it, and before long you won’t
hear anybody saying, “This week’s pa
per is all ads and no news.”
There isn’t an organization on earth
that can prosper without publicity.
Big businesses recognize this fact and
set up a whole department with no
other task. Local organizations need
publicity. Where can a better medium
be found than our local newspaper.
The big celebration here is that
about nine-tenths of this publicity
is free. If civic and religious organi
zations had to pay for every line of
publicity they get free in the news
papers, they’d have to sharpen up
their pencils and give their budget a
thorough overhauling. Not long ago
a visiting lady said to me, “I knew
there was a church in Grandfalls be
cause I saw the announcement in the
paper.” How much did that an
nouncement cost? Not one red cent.
Do we need a local paper? Better put
it positively—we can not get along
without a local paper.
I don’t like to leave the impression
that newspapers and editors are like
the idea that they used to have of
kings, that they “can do no wrong.”
No, they’re like the rest of us,when it
comes to making mistakes. However,
I have also found that the editors I
have known arc like most of us in
another respect, if treated like rat
ional human beings, they are apt to
behave in the same way. Get ac
quainted with the editor. He is us
ually a clearing house for informa
tion in community and civic activi
ties. You will find him always ready
to lend a hand in anything that’s for
the good of the community. More
than that he’ll give you a medium
through which to arouse interest in
and marshall support for your parti
cular activity of program. And as I
have said before, nine times out of
ten it won’t cost you a cent.
Let’s get behind our local newspa
per and its editors with subscriptions,
news and ads. They are behind you
and me and the things in our com
munity we are interested in.
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HARDWARE
London, April 7.—The British gov
ernment levied a 50 per cent income
tax upon its people today to help
meet a record war-time budget and
disclosed that in the financial year
ending March 31, 1942, supplies ord
ered 1 in the United States would ex
ceed 120,000,000,000.
The all-time high income tax was
announced along with a budget
estimated at £4,207,000,000 (about
$16,828,000,000). It was accompanied
by the introduction of a “save-as-
you-pay” principle by which the tax
payer was promised part of the in
crease would be refunded after the
war.
ChalceUor of the Exchequer Sir
Kingsley Wood called the budget
one of ‘domestic expenditure” because
the figures do not take into account
material to come from the United
States under the aid-to-democracies
bill. The estimate also excluded
payments to be made to the United
States under existing orders.
The new tax of 1 shilling ($2) to
the pound ($4) compares with the
last war’s high of six shillings in 1918.
It caused little surprise since many
had expected an income tax increase
in addition to new imposts on liquor
and tobacco, which Sir Kingsley av
oided on grounds that they would de
feat the object of existing taxes on
those commodities by reducing con
sumption.
Reduction of personal allowances
and the exemption limit will sweep
an additional 2,000,000 taxpayers in
to the treasury dragnet and the total
effect of the changes is expected to
increase revenue £250,000,000 more
than a third above the record £524,-
000,000 of taxes collected in the 1940-
41 financial year.
The remainder of the budget will
be financed by borrowing, as in the
case of last year, when Sir Kingsley
said £3,844,000,000 was spent, witn
£2,462,000,000 of it borrowed.
ATTEND W. O. W. MEETING
O. S. Goree, R. C. Taylor, and Oak
Senn attended a Woodman of the
World meeting in Bennettsville Tues
day and Wednesday, representing
Newberry Camp 542. Mr. Goree is
secretary and treasurer of the New
berry camp.
Mrs. Byrd Byars spent the weekend
in Greenville with her sister, Mrs.
L. F. Jones.
Miss Clara Layton, teacher in Un
ion school system, spent the weekend
at her home on O’Neal street.
Furman Goree has taken up duties
as mail clerk in Rock Hill.
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Nazi Gestapo In Italy
Correspondents of American news
papers who have been stationed in
Rome, but who have returned to the
United States, are telling facts about
the Fascist government and Italy
that could not be told as long as they
remained in Italy. Among them is
Saville R. Davis, who was Rome cor
respondent for the Christian Science
Monitor, but who left Italy late in
February.-
A recent article written by Mr.
Davis contained the following intro
duction.
“Italy’s key centers of power are
today in the hands of German troops
—but not the troops which the out
side world imagines. They are the
battalions of Heinrich Himmler, chief
of the German secret police. Premier
Mussolini brought them in. Premier
Mussolini today is using them to re
tain power in the face of numerous
revolutionary plots directed against
him. As long as German land-power
remains unbroken on the Continent,
he is likely to succeed. The Gesta
po has its men in substantial control
at every one of the vital points where
power in a totalitarian state is exer
cised and it works also through the
efficient Italian secret police. In the
event of any rebellion, the Gestapo
would strike first. When I left Italy
late in February, therefore, the revo
lution was already over. It had been
won this time by the Germans.”
Mr. Davis declared that the infil
tration of German influence and Ger
man agents into Italy was done so
quietly that “few people in Rome
realized what was taking place.” It
was described as a “technical occu
pation” which was an occupation by
political advisers, government special
ists of various sorts, economic coor
dinators, military missions and above
all, of political police.
'Mr. Davis named some of his auth
orities who confirmed his suspicions
of the silent revolution that actually
transferred govemmeni. from Italian
hands into those of Germany, and at
considerable length he described the
operation of the German bosses.
It is not surprising to know that
Mussolini sold his own people (town
the river. President Roosevelt in his
speech last year at the University of
Virginia spoke of Mussolini as the as
sassin who had struck his neighbor in
the back. He was thinking of Italy’s
desertion of her old allies, France and
Britain. His statement was bitterly
attacked by American isolationists
and appeasers, but the American peo
ple knew he was correct in what he
said. Now comes a reliable corres
pondent to tell us that Mussolini also
has used the stilletto on the Italian
people.—Spartanburg Herald.
KINARD SCORES STRIKES; TALKS
TO ROTARIANS
The State, 8th.
Dr. James C. Kinard, Newberry
college president, suggested during a
talk at the weekly Columbia Rotary
club luncheon at the Jefferson hotel
yesterday that there be a new de
velopment of community conscious
ness to discourage strikes and other
activities detrimental to the United
States.
“Frankly, I am not worried about
; a physical invasion of the United
States. It is the struggle within that
could cause us to fall ... If our
country is to be defended against
the foes that would attack from with
in, there must be a development of
community consciousness,” he said.
Doctor Kinard asserted that the
government had the right, “by force
of arms if necessary,” to prevent
strike activity and “let the strikers
starve if they want to, but not to al
low them to starve others who want
to work.” He warned that “we may
be too late” unless strike activity is
discouraged now.
Doctor Kinard would “preserve that
dignity of hard work” and allow free
dom to all as they choose, but to
clamp down on those who are respon
sible for strikes now in effect in the
country. \
Mrs. Ernest Pinson, Mrs. Frank
Hannah and little daughter, Mary
Sease, of Cross Hill visited their re
latives in the county over the week
end.
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