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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-10

and force to ennoblfng causes In all
nations" address at the annual meet
ing of the National Civic Federation,
January IS, 1850.
Nevertheless, as late as May 26,
1915, speaking before the League to
Enforce Peace at Washington, D. c.,
Gompers continued to say that labor
was against war He declared: mo
class. has more to lose and less to
gain In war than the workers. No
class renders such sacrificial service
during war and bears such staggering
burdens after war n does labor. In
war, labor sees the results of years
of struggle for wider justice swept
away. In one mad moment the clock
of industrial progress may be turned
back for generation. War diverts
the mind of people from constructive
work Of humanity and democratizing
the relations OF men. Recognizing this
working men the world over have
avowed their allegiance to the cause
of peace and have sworn undying OPP
position to the force that makes for
war" (Gompers: Labor and the War.
p. 69.).
But on October Is, 1915, as we were
getting nearer to the war, Gompers
openly worshipped even those who
were fighting for the czars and kais-
ers. He stated: II am free to say
that in our international relations !
was an -pacifist until the break
ing out Of this war. / was willing to
go the limit to stop war or prevent
war. But when l found that the peo-
pie responded to their colors, whether
for kaiser, czar, president, or king,
made up my mind that l have been
living in FOOLS paradise, and that
after all it is necessary for men to
be prepared to defend themselves"
address before the Wilson Eight
Hour League. October 10. 1850.
In September, 1918, Gompers ex-
claimed: This is war against war,
that is what this war is. 1t Is
crusade, war of the enraged civilian
populations defending their msnaced
liberties and democracies. 1t II not
war :. II ever there was
war in which the vital interests and
The rights Of the masses OF the people
Of our democratic countries were Ia
volved, this is the war" Address be-
tore the London, England, Trades
Council, September %, 1879.
This is just some of the propaganda
hat was used to drive the people Into
he frenzy of war. Tho churches
played an important part In the for
nation OF the last war by working on
heir Sunday congregations to bring
hem to pitch of war hysteria. can
zee very little difference in the meth
DDS they, are using today than those
hey used to drag this country into
he World war In 1917.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-10
TO DISCUSS DEMOCRACY
IN THE SOUTH

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.-(FP)-De-
mocracy in the south will be the theme
of the Southern Conference for HUI
man Welfare opening in Chattanooga
April a. Democracy and religion
rural life, children, industry, civil
rights, poll tax, and rural life will be
discussed, says Exec. Sec. Howard
Lee. Headquarters are at Hotel Pat
ten.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-10
TECHNOLOGY AND
UNEMPLOYMENT

WASHINGTON. - FP) - Hearings
on archaeological unemployment will be
started before the Temporary National
Economic monopoly Committee April
s. They are expected to last approx
mately three weeks and to cover the
problem of unemployment as the re-
suit of improved production methods.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-10
Federal Drive
Against Labor,
Radicals Scored

| NEW RK.-(FP)--Federa prose
cution of labor and radical groups
under technical charges drew condem-
nation from the board OF directors OF
the American Civil Liberties Union.
A warning against the "easy resort
to technical charges to pander to pub
lie prejudice" featured q report based
upon study of recent prosecutions.
including the Minneapolis WPA trials,
the false passport cases brought
against communists, the Spanish 10y
|alist indictments In Detroit, the Chris
ton Front conspiracy indictments, and
eight other cases.
1.-THE use Of the conspiracy statute
In the Minneapolis WPA prosecutions.
even If technically justiffable, consti-
tutes perversion of that statute"
the report says. Appropriate legis-
lation should be enacted providing
against similar use in the future"
The report largely blamed President
Roosevelt in many Of the cases. RE
sponsibility for certain of the activi-
ties in recent months OF the depart
ment OF justice and particularly OF the
FBI is to be laid at the door Of the
president, who last September author
lied the issuance OF an order requir-
ing investigation of 'subversivs activi-
ties by the FBI," the report says.
ANY such vague phrase constitutes
a warrant for activities dangerous to
civil liberties Of minority political par
ties and others against whom popular
prejudice is too readily directed"
In conclusion the report says: I'm
a period of inf1amed public opinion,
1t is peculiarly the obligation of both
even the appearance Of using tho Grim
NAL process for political purposes or
Tor pandering to public prejudice"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-29
CHAPTER ii
BY EDMUND RUZANSKI

is4o by American Weekly Reserved
- HOSE who read last weeks article must have
wondered what effect such undernourish-
] ment encouragement, corruption and degrad-
alton of Russian womanhood would have on the
children.
The modern way of destroying an ants nest
is to get poison to its queen The Communists have
made of Russia nation of ants, red ants with
out initiative, liberty hope; doomed to slave
their lives away in return for pittance that will
barely support life. And now the terrorsts who
rule this nest have discovered that they slowly
destroying it by poisoning their own queen, the
mothers of future slaves
One of the worst symptoms of this race
poisoning is seen in the wild children of Russia,
'the homeless ones as the Communists prefer to
call them but more commonly known as hat
snatchers,' foxes and birds. The first two
names are easily understood and l soon learned
that the third is due to their habit like bird, of
turning their heads aside when watching you most
closely.
In the early days of Bolshevism, the propa-
gandists made the mistake of conceding the eX-
istence of some 100 900 of these ptiful, furtlve,
thevng creatures, ranging in age from four to
fourteen years. At that time they were gibly ex-
planned away as eftovers from the wicked Czarlst
regime to be reclaimed in the general JOY
and bounty to follow the very next five-year plan.
Unfortunately for the Communist eXplainers,
there more of them today than ever, and even
the most brazen Red agtator can hardly pretend
that they still Czarist hangovers.
Even more startling, but only to those who
know the real inside of the whited sepulcher that
is Soviet Russia today, looms the fact that ex-
pectant mothers are now granted extra food
rations. This may seem obvious thing, consid-
ering the halfstarved condition Of the popuace.
Any of the Democraces in time of general famine
would do it a matter of course.
But the Russian general famine is perpetual
and self-nflcted one and therefore must
be admitted to exist. Instead it must be shouted
louder than that the Russian worker is boun-
tifully fed, clothed and housed.
The Russian worker, male and female, may
know perfectly well that the rations his wages
and food card will permit him to buy barely
enough to keep body and soul together. But he
can't complain to the outside world and had better
not grumble even to his neghbor, unless he wants
a visit some night from the terrorist spy organ-
zation, known formerly the OGPU, but now
90 called the GPU. His masters have said that the
rations are ample to sustain robust health under
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-29

innumerable children would be simply abandond
Nobody knows and until recently the gove
ment did not much care, how many of them DID
That any of them survived in country who
even a strong working man has all he can do
exist, shows the almost miraculous tenacity OF Y
in the human species.
Survival of the fittest," said the Commun
theorists and so indeed it was-but they were
to survive only as thieves. beggars and OUTLAW
In all the towns one finds rather nice, lit
lunch rooms with sign stating that they are r
by THE FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN s
GETTY" There one may buy two eggs, bun a
cup of synthetic coffee for six roubles, the equ
alent of days wages for the ordinary wog'e'
Workers are, therefore, never seen ~ u
places, whose only patrons are foreigners oftlcl;
and mysteriously prosperous other natives. I
big profits are supposed to go to the homeless ct
dren.
That is one more of the endless Commun
lies. Every cent, like those from the liquor shol
goes into the bottomless pit of Red Army upket
The poor little devils do, however, get somethi
out of the shops at that. 1t was in one of the
that l first made close contact with the you
pariahs
Nobody was patronizing the little shop as
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-29

nobody knows where, because none comes back
to tell
AS an operative of the GPU, once was
careless as to ask my superior, Comrade May,
what did happen to them. Softly he replied
Il would not be too curious about such things.
You might find out
IF YOU are faithful Red, as l was before
i actually saw the inside of Red Russia, pink
who follows the propaganda films sent over from
Russia you will see occasional shots of institutions
containing well-fed, wel-clothed happy-ooking
youngsters attended by equally prosperous nurses
and teachers. Such places seem to be about on
par with an average American orphan asylum
They are. This will be confirmed by tourists, led
through Russia by Intourist guides.
The trouble is that they are not at all what
they purport to be, and doubt if there are half
a dozen in all Russia. Of course the film calls them
anything it likes, and American tourist has as
much chance of seeing anything his Intourst guide
has not been told to let him as he would in
Germany to look in window and see Adolf Hitler
taking a bath.
The films and the guides solemnly tell the
world that these are some of the many institu-
tons where Russia takes care of its homeless chill
dren These places run by the government,
but they paid for by the parents of the chill
dren who not homeless at all and belong to
the families of the newly-rich.
In Russia one may acquire considerable for
hidden wealth. if one is in right and willing to
share the wealth with the powers that be. One
might well show pictures of Groton or st.
Pauls, Concord examples of how America
takes care of its orphans During my five years
in Soviet Russia absolutely nothing beyond the
two things l have mentioned was done to reclaim
the wild waits.
The Communists have made such mockery
of marriage that a do the right thing
by a woman day only to divorce her without
cause the next week. as explained in my previous
article Under such conditions it is inevitable that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-29

tempted by the lying promises
of the Reds, soon discovered that
the Workers Paradise painted
for him was in reality Work
ers' He'll. Forced to become a
spy for Stalin's GPU, the dread
Russian secret service, he played
the game. cunningly, and after
five years found an opportunity
to escape.
His articles are condensations
of chapters in a book which he
has written about his expert
ences. Last weeks revelations
dealt with the degradation and
official prostitution of women,
and the destruction of family life
as America conceives it should
be. Today, the author tells
about the debasement of chill
dren, perhaps the worst crime of
all perpetrated by the Red Rus
sian regime.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-29

any conditions And what they say is the ~
gospel.
Yet many of them did dare to complain y
bitterly to me because was foreigner,
little dreaming that they were talking to
one of the millions of GPU ears" But
l did not report them for quick death by
bullet in one of the cellar execution rooms
or slow one in the Siberian lumber
camps. Instead l promised if ever I II
should succeed in escaping from Russia, to ID
tell the truth about the Russian workers U
plight And l am trying to do it right
For the government now to grant
mothers special rations, including such delca-
cies butter milk, fresh vegetables bacon and the
other items for which the average Russian Graves
in vain, thus putting her almost on par with what
it has been forced to allow foreign gluttons is
to admit that the government for once, was wrong.
Democracies may be wrong and admit it by
repeating bad laws without losing face, but not
the authoritarian tyrannes of Stain and Hitler.
These are run by inspired prophets who, denying
the existence of God, are nevertheless divinely
right themselves and cannot make mistakes
1t is better that million Russian mothers
and children should perish than that the Red
rulers of Russia should appear anything less than
infallibe. That in this they have been forced
to make the deadly admission shows how serious
the situation has become.
The reader who, like most Americans, has
probably heard little but pro-Sovet propaganda
may well ask incredulously, if this is really true
AND II SO why the government mas done nothhg
about it.
l know that it is true, because there were
over 1000 beggar-thief children in the Baku dis
trict alone while was there. AS GPU operative
l saw the statistics myself gathered by Baku
militia. They not for publication and there
fore were true.
However, the government is doing two things
to remedy the situation probably about all it can
do, because Communism is revolution against
Nature, the slow but invncible counter-revoution-
list.
First there is the new idea, which l have just
mentioned, of granting the mother enough decent
food to nourish herself and child
Second, when these waits have reached the
age Of about fourteen and seem strong enough to
be made to work, provided they have both arms
and both legs they arrested. If crippled, as
many are, or too sickly for hard labor, they are
beggars. known as walkers"
The sturdy transported across the
Caspian Sea, along with the counter revolutionsts.
After they reach Krasnovodsk they disappear,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-29

preceded
of Foreign sand the of
like other who
The Phoenix index., 1940-06-22
"Rochester" TO Crown 194O
Sepia Queen Of Personality
Grand Ball To
Be Held June
20 In Harlem

NEW YORK CITY (SNS) -
Harlen's Social Register, the swing
fans and the cinema devotees of
Jack Benny's pal Eddie Rochester
Anderson, are all agog with ex-
element over the coming Grand
June Ball to be held at the Rem
aissance Ballroom on next Thurs
day evening, June 20, under the
sponsorship Of the Associate Busi-
ness Men of Harlem.
The Grand June Ball which is
promoted under the personal di-
rection of Allan Mcmillan, will ben
eft the Harlem CIliloren's Camp
Fund for underpriviieEed boys and
girls of which Lieut.. Samuel j..
Battle is chairman. The Grand
Ball also marks the elimination Of
the 1910 Popularity Contest, and
this is where Rochester comes
into the picture.
Eddie Anderson, the beloved COM
ic with Jack Benny on the Jello
Radio Show and the Paramount
picture Buck Benny Rides Again"
opens limited engagement at the
Paramount Theatre on Broadway
next Wednesday, June 18th, and
he will positively appear in person
at the June Ball on Thursday mite,
June 20, at which time he will
award the nriZec and crown the
winner of the 1910 Popularity Con-
test, Miss Personality of 1910"
In the contest Allan Mcmillan
has assembled 4 20 tacular ca"al.
cade of dazzling glamour girls
the most gorgeous Sepia Femmes
ever assembled in Harlem. McMil-
ian calls his promotion the 1910
Parade of Harlem's Loveliest Fem
ininity-the most charming Sum-
Tanned Lassies from the Spark
ling Shores of the Atlantic.
Other than Rochester" there
will be a host of celebrities on
hand to enhance the festivities,
among which are Ethel Waters, the
Peters Sisters, Eddie South, Ralph
Cooper, Dewey "Pigmeat" Mark
ham, Duke Ellington, Willie Bry-
ant.
Among the judges will be prom
inent newspaper men now station
ed at the New York Worlds Fair
of 1910.
The Phoenix index., 1940-06-22
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ginia" last week. Among them were
Martin Turner, Art Ellis and nine
year old George Sparks.
AT TWENTIETH CENTURY
FOX where Ernest Whitman is
again scording in A James" thrill
Ter, called the Return of Frank
James, director Fritz Lang placed
Mczelle T. Outley for some added
scenes.
AT PARAMOUNT-Henry Hastings
and Lena Terrence worked for di-
rector Sturgis in new production,
one of the forty or more planned by
this busy studio. Also on the same
lot under director Tymrka, Charlie
Moore, and Bene Green began
work.
AT RKO-for that great woman
director, Dorothy Arzner, Anita
Brown, Harold Slick Garrison.
Hazel Howard, Thomas Williams,
Calvin Fuller and Elmer Fain,
started in a new feature.
AT WARNER BROTHERS -
Reginald (Panama) Anderson,
John Lester Johnson, and Neil
Clisby were cast for director Lit
Mich when he asked for men who
could fight and were not afraid of
getting hurt.
EDWARD THOMPSON, famous
former Lafayette player came very
close to choice radio plum last
week. He was on interview for the
part of an old man of eighty years
on the Edward j. Robinson air pro-
gram last week, but lost by a close
shave to Clarence Muse.
JOAN DOUGLAS, second place
winner to Jeni LeGon in the ma
tional contest for Million Dollar
Productions while Thousands
Cheer" is preparing to take the
summer course in dramatics at
use which opens shortly. In spite
of the fact that she studied dra-
matics at Langston university, and
was prominent in the Little The
atre" ci{;les through Oklahoma,
she keeps up her studies in order
to improve upon her natural tai
ents. 1t is her highest ambition
and goal to become one of the
country's finest actresses.
The Phoenix index., 1940-06-22
TAPPING WIRES
ALONG ARLANES

In case you read this before
hand, here's a reminder that the
Joe LOuis-ArturO GOdOy prize
fight will be aired via NBC blue,
Thursday, June 20 Erskine Haw-
kins and his NBC Bluebird Re-
c0rding band was elected favoritc
swing group in poll conducted
at the the University of New
Mexico Br0adcasting Co.
NEWSY NOTES-Chicago radio
fans are getting break in that
Art Tatum, whose recent Decca
piano album is causing considera-
ble comment along record row, now
has a local outlet for his Cali
fCrnia Melodies" radio program g.
Station WGN, 720 k, is rebroad-
casting the show (heard Thursdays
over MBS) every Sunday morning
at IL a. m, Chicago time. Macs
tro's John Kirby, Gene Krupa, Or
rim Tucker of Columbia-Vocalion
Records and Duke Ellington of VIC
tor nave been shortwaving swing
music 5roadcaSts via WCBX to
British and French troops across
the sea.
The Phoenix index., 1940-06-22
International
SWeetheartS
Score Big Hit

PINEY WOODS, Miss, (SNS)-
When Phil Spitalny's an-colored
orchestra and Ina Ray Hutton's
aggregations gained the favor of
thousands, a man conceived a new
type Of all-girl banda musical
group made up of mixed nationali-
ties. Prof. Laurence Jones OBJ
tanned girls of the Mexican, Indian
and Negro peoples to form his
band
With tine now International
Sweethearts OF Rhythm gaining
nationwide fame, Prof. Jones mas
proudly observed his dream OF
elorlfylng the girls of the tan and
brown groups come true When
brown groups come true. What
Ziegfeld did for the white girl OH
the stage, Mr. Jones has done for
the Brown Girls Of Swing.
In the orchestra are some OF
Americas foremost music sJylists.
Versatile Miss Edna Williams, mu-
stcal director, plays a dozen diff
ferent instruments, being featured
on the trumpet, piano, and ac-
Gordon Helen Elizabeth Jones is
rated one of the best trombonista
In the country Pauline Brady is a
sensational drummer and appeal
ing vocalist, while the Snyder Sis
tiers are outstanding SaXophoniSts.
AS chaperone and singing di-
rector, Mrs. Rae Jones looks aft
er the comforts of the girls while
on tours. The charming and
graceful manner of the orchestra
members has gained favorable
d-mments everywhere the group
has appeared.
The Phoenix index., 1940-06-22
(Bv HAROLD JOVIEN for AMP

The following listing is in eff
feet for the week of June 23 only!
All time shown is Eastern Day
light. Subtract 1 hour for Cen
trail daylight and Eastern Stand
ard time; 2 hours for Central
Standard, 3 hours for Mountain
and Four hours for Pacific Coast
time. AS is the unavoidable case
in radio scheduling, all programs
are subject to last minute time
and talent changes.
HOT INSTRUMENTAL
AND VOCAL
Basin Street Chamber Music
Society, NBC Blue, Sunday 4:3O
D. m. Guests.
Bon Bon, singer with Jan Sa-
Wits and, NBC and WMAQ, 67Ok
nitely except Monday. Approx
mately 1910 am, NBC and
WENR 870k, l 80 a. m. Sherman
hotel, Chicago.
Erskine Butterfield, MBS, Tues
day $3.50 pm, piano-vocalist.
Charioteers, NBC Blue, Tues.
8 80 am, Sat. 1O:45 am.
Earl Hines, NBC Red, Wed,
Thurs. and Fri, 1890 am, Rose
land Ballroom NYC.
Andy Kirk, CHS, Monday and
Friday, IL midnite, Cotton Club,
NYC.
John Kirby, CHS, Sunday, $3.50
pm. Also guest songstress.
Jimmie Lunceford, CHS and
MBS. Scattered schedule, Fiesta,
NYC.
Maurice Rocco and Three Bits
of Rhythm, Tues. Wed. Thurs.
Sat. 1890 pm, Sun. 1890 and
11:15 pm, Capitol Lounge, Chi
cago.
Sunset Royal Ork. NBC, Mon.
The Phoenix index., 1940-06-22
Paul Robson To
Sing In Stadium

NEW YORK-(A N P)-Paul
Robson, baritone, will be soloist
at the first performance of a
ballad for a white and colored
chorus, orchestra, soloists and mar
rator, by William Grant Still. who
has composed music to Katherine
Garrison Chapin's poem which VIII
be presented at LeWisohn stadium
on June "a.
The work, titled, "And They
Lynched Him on Tree" will be
presented by a chorus OF fifty
voices from Schola Cantoriun and
the Wen Talbert choir which will
assist the Philharmonic-Symphony
orchestra, conducted by Arthur
Rodzinski
Robson, who has only recently
returned from Europe, is at pres
ent appearing on the Pacific coast
in version of the "Showboat. " He
will return to New York on or
about June IS.
The Phoenix index., 1940-06-22
With HAROLD JOVIEN,
AMP RADIO EDITOR

Jimmie Lunceford and Maxine
Sullivan, two outstanding musical
figures matched wits with Leonard
Feather and Milton Gabler, record
authorities Monday night, June 10,
on a session of Bob Bach's WNEW
New York "Platterbrains" pro-
gram.
Lunceford, just. back from
middlewest tour, was bursting
with "jiveformation" and Miss
Sullivan had issued a challenge
to Feather and Gable for a
swing duel.
Listeners regularly in questions
to the "Platterbrains" regarding in
formation about records, who plays
them, what the tunes are, who
wrote thena and who the instru-
mental and vocal soloists happen
to be Each spins the records,
which have blank Jackets over the
labels, and the "Jazz jury an
GWerS.
THE TAPER TATTLES - Ethel
Waters sang the song she made
famous-"S STORMY Weather. and
told how she always wanted to be
a dramatic actress on 1--WE, The
People" over the Columbia net
work Tuesday, June IL. Ethel re-
lated that it was not until after
she had become the foremost singer
of her time that she finally got her
chance to GO a dramatic role in
"Mamba's Daughters. She also
disclosed future dramatic plans.
The Phoenix index., 1940-06-22
WILD RADIO WAVES

vile thru station WSM.
Fisk Jubilee Singers, Choir,
NBC Blue, Sun 1880 pm. From
Nashville thru station WSM.
Golden Gate Jubilee Singers
CHS, Heavy scattered schedule.
Golden Hour, WCKQ, Memphis,
Tenn, Sun. $3.50 pm, Centenary
Church.
Josef Marvis Bushvel, Songs,
NBC Blue, Friday pm.
Sheep and Goats Club Revue
MBS, Wed. 8 pm, Richard Huey'
NC.
SouthernGires, Vocal quartet,
NBC Blue, Sun. 1890 am, Wed
Thurs. 1915 pm.
We, The People, GINS, Sunday,
$3.50 am.
Wings Over Jordan, CBS, Tues
9 pm, West coast rebroadcast, II
midnite.
The Phoenix index., 1940-06-22
Sunshine Sammy
Signed For Pix


was signed last week to- a contract
to make eight pictures in series Of
two at time, to be interspersed
with personal appearance tours by
the company Title of the series
which will feature along with the
sepia screen artist, several mem
bers of the Dead End Kids, is Boys
of the City"
lFilmlovers will applaud the re-
turn of Sunshine Sammy to the
screen. After leaving the screen as
tie first sepia child star of the Our
Gang group, Sunshine went on to
make a big name for himself in
the show world as a dancer.