Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-01-14

clear the air.
The follow
in g imagin-
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1Iay'on W. would be
rouh'am worth my
Sunday shirt to witness in 1914:
"FDR HITS NATIVE NAZIS
Washington, D. C.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt, in an extraor-
dinary press conference, today
denounced the enemies of organ
lied labor as practitioners of the
political theories which give rise
to Nazism. He pointed out that,
in Italy and Germany, the re-
spective growths of Fascism and
Nazism were financed by indus
trialists, bankers and landlords
who feared the labor unions in
those countries. Those in Amer
lea who are trying with politics
and propaganda to destroy the
labor unions are really Nazis in
disguise, the President said, be-
cause the unions are the strong
est opponents of the totalitarian
tendencies of big business"
"CHURCHILL BLASTS
IMPERIALISM"
London, England - Prime
Minister Winston Churchill sur
prised the world today with a
fiery denunciation of imperial
ism and suppression of colonial
peoples by absentee govern
ments. Demanding that Parlia-
ment Immediately issue a procla-
nation of independence for In
dia and other sections of the
empire overseas, Churchill stated
flatly that all the United Ma
tions ought to practice the
preachments of their Four Free
doms philosophy"
DIES DEFINES
DEMOCRACY"
New York, N. Y.-Democ-
racy was defined here today by
Martin Dies, Texas Congress
man, in speech before a meet
ing of the National Maritime
Union, as government which
permits any citizen to embrace
and advocate any political phi
losophy he or she things best for
the people" "
"WILLKIE CUTS TIES"
indianapolis, Ind. - Wendell
Willkie, candidate for the COP
nomination for president in 1914,
Cut all the ties with the power
utilities he formerly served in a
speech here tonight. Assailing
the power monopolies as leeches
which suck bio i from the COM
mon people, through excessive
rates and profits, the favorite
son of Indiana demanded public
ownership of all public utilities
and nationwide system of
IVA projects"
admits BATTING"
''New York, N. Y. - Earl
Browder, American Communist
chief, admitted today in a signed
article in the Day Worker that
his organization was guilty of
batting its political opponents.
The people we denounce as Tro:-
skyites and Lewisites are not
necessarily followers of Trotsky
and Lewis, Browder said. We
merely brand most of our oppo-
nents in the labor movement AS
such because it easier than
meeting the arguments they put
up against us"
tom PAINE CITED"
Washington, D. C. - Tom
Paine's labor record was cited
before Congress today by Con-
sressman Glare Hoffman of
Michigan in an eloquent defense
of the rights of labor. Recalling
the fact that Tom Paine was dis
charged and blacklisted for try
ing to organize tax clerks in
England, Hoffman declared that
the right of labor to organize
was sacred to the American way
of life"
FRANCO BLASTED"
Washington, D. C-Secre-
tary of State Cordell Hull issued
a statement today condemning
Franco, Spanish dictator, as
tool of Nazism and a menace to
democracy. History has demon
strated, Hull said, that Franco
has played ball with the Fascists
ever since Hitler and Mussolini
helped him to wipe out the DEM
ocratic Loyalist government N
SPAIN"