The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-11-14
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: HORSE CORRAL
An 1LNS Feature Z
BY VICTOR RIESEL I
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A rather startling picture-that
which the Stalinites etched in the
National Press Club Auditorium.
Rockwell Kent, leader Of the Com
munist Artists Guild and vice -presi-
dent of the Comintern International
Workers Order; Abe lsserman, coun
sci to the Newspaper Guild; Morris
Watson, who by now is on as many
transmission belts as is Franz Boaz;
Joe Cadden of the American Peace
Mobilization and the Youth Congress-;
and Dan Gillmor, "editor" of fellow
tourist magazine Friday-all descend
ed on the nations capital to speak at
"civil rights" meeting-no less.
SO for all and sundry in the ma
tion's capital it is hereby recorded
that the Washington Committee for
Democratic Action, chapter of the
National Federation for Constitutional
Liberties (boy, what Saroyan could
do with this title), is part of the Mos
cow express.
And since it's raining here, we'll
switch to the West Coast, where the
Comrades" are no longer making hay
while the sun shines >. so, "IF," as
they say at a United Mine Workers
convention, "there are no objections"
we'll proceed:
Down in Washington's Department
of Labor, it's West Coast listening
post reports the rumblings of labor
revolt against Harry Bridges. Centers
of anti-Bridges sentiment are Port
land, Ore, and San Pedro, Calf, i'm
portant seaports.
Bridges, who is also director Of the
California CIO-which is opposed to
President Roosevelt and the draft
has been transforming since Lewis
speech, and has prevailed on his West
Coast Council not to endorse any can
didate. Although Bridges has no state
ment for the regular press, he told
the Los Angeles "People's World"
official Communist daily, that regard
less of the presidential campaign, all
CIO unions should prevail upon Lewis
to remain as president Of the CIO."
Today, Bridges is in Washington
discussing the West Coast revolt
against him, and lining matters up
for the November Is CIO convention
in Atlantic City. The AFL's Inter-
national Longshoremen's Association
is ready to blast away at Bridges
control of West Coast shipping. The
coast may soon be tied up with strikes
which will make the Trocadero affair
a Sunday parade.
In addition, Harry Lundeberg, chief
of the Sailors Union of the Pacific,
has just filed 100000 damage suit
for libel against Bridges Maritime
Federation of the Pacific, charging
that the Bridges newspaper, "Voice
of the Federation" attempted to dis
credit Lundeberg because of his Gun
willingness to follow the program of
the Communist Party to bring sea-
faring and maritime unions of the Pa
cific Coast under the domination and
control of the Communist Party"
Lion Feuchtwanger, who writes
novels so we'll that he can't distinguish
fiction from fact, has just found ref
uge in this country. Exactly what he
thinks of the western democracies can
be found on page 149 of his book,
"Moscow-1937," where he says:
"The air which one breathes in the
| West is stale and foul. In the western
civilization there is no longer clarity
{. one breathes again when one
comes from this oppressive atmosphere
of a counterfeit democracy and hypo-
critical humanism into the invigor-
ating atmosphere of the Soviet Union"
So why did Herr Feuchtwanger,
chief literary Kremlin crawler, go
West?