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By
Howard
Fast
AN Irish-American patriot, Fitz
Donahue by name, who had spent
seven months
in a /'British
prison-ship dur
our revolu-
Ts tion, and whose
A s dropped from
A A 212 pounds to
>, ' 129 pounds,
\ comment
ed upon his re
lease;
fast “They a r p
fine, upstand
ing quality, the British, and they
would not shoot a man who they
could starve gentle and teach
him some Manners meanwhile.”
Donahue indulged in this quiet,
Gaelic bitterness after a session
on Major William Cunningham’s
infamous hell ship, a rotten o!d
hulk that lay in the Hudson Riv
er during the British occupation
of New York, a devil’s hole
where men had no space to lie
down, nor to breath—and which
eventually accounted for over
three thousand American lives
The point I make here is that
British instruction in manners
has not visibly Improved, exceut
quantitatively, and that we, who
should have a clear, hard mem
ory of past horror, have learned
well, under them.
** ■ *
FOR instance, I remember In
India coming in on the tail end
of a jurisdictional squabble be
tween the British and American
local commands. Some seven hun
dred people a night had been
dying of starvation in the streets
of Calcutta, as a result of a Brit
ish maneuvered rice famine, and
all hell was being raised because
the American head of transnor*a
tion would not lend his trucks to
the British to cart the bodies
away.
There must be delightful laugh
ter in that part of hell where
Hitler holds court—and certainly
a series of polite chuckles at
some figures Harold L. Ickes,
that very sour and very often
truthful young-old man, bounced
around in the press.
Ickes gave some facts al'out
another area, where we share the
“white man’s burden” with that
so-called “socialist” government
of Great Britain, Saudi-Arab'a.
* * *
YOU will recall, perhaps, that
in this same space a few weeks
ago I recounted some interesting
information, handed onto me by
oil workers in Saudi-Arabia, con
cerning our imperialist occupa
tion of that benighted land.
Again, in considering this roman
tically-named land, one must re
member that the only difference
between the common folk there
and the common folk in India, is
a quantitative one. There are
fewer Saudi-Arabians, but they
are quite as miserable as their
Indian brethren, and their reac
tion to starvation and disease is
very much the same.
I pointed out the technique of
occupation and oil exploitation
we used. I mentioned the oil
workers’ contemptuous explana
tion of how Standard Oil had pur
chased King Iban Saud, his soul
as well as his land. Now the for
mer Secretary of the Interior
backs up my remarks with these
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THE CHICAGO
★
Vol. 1
Published
Weekly
I, No. 8
'lnjunction granted!”
Fight strike ban
by Chitago court
By Leonard C. Lewin
Chicago unions this week vowed a fight "to the Supreme Court if necessary,”
against a "no-strike" injunction issued by Superior Court Judge Joseph A. Graber.
The judge's sweeping edict, directed against employes of the Cory Corporation,
6. ■ —— ’
ABOVE you see what’s going
on at 31st and Ashland.
Goldblatt Bros, are building
themselves a new warehouse at
a cost of $1,660,000.
Some newspapers might run
a contest asking the public to
estimate how many nails will go
into the making of this struc
ture.
However, the Star is more
interested in finding why
7,500 veterans homes are to-
JAMES F. BYRNES
Betrayer of FDR ...
Chicago, August 24, 1946 »^jpb» 66
day standing unfinished for
lack of nails, flooring, sewer
connections, plaster.
# * *
THE Goldblatt project is one
of many huge non-housing build
ings that are going up in Chi
cago.
A few further notes on the
housing situation: Gov. Green
insists that housing is not the
concern of the state or the fed
eral government.
Byrnes - Churchill vs. Roosevelt
THE piecemeal destruction of the
Roosevelt foreign policy was revealed
this week in a sensational exposure
called “FDR vs. Churchill,” written by
Elliot Roosevelt.
The article, appearing in “Look”
Magazine, gave a factual account of how
Winston Churchill and Secretary of
State James Byrnes shifted the U. S.
toward a reactionary and anti-Soviet
: S*|
“Private enterprise,” he
says, “is eager for the tools
and the opportunity to tackle
the job.”
# * *
ONE of the Governor’s own
committees, set up to survey Che
housing shortage, came through
this week with this hot foot:
The state needs 230,000 homes
in 1946-47 in order to meet the
bare needs of vets and others.
Look here, Pvt. Enterprise...
policy in direct opposition to President
Roosevelt’s desires.
“At Fulton, Missouri,” the article
stated, “this same Churchill ran up a
trial balloon for outright war against
his former ally of the dark wartime
years.”
YOUNG Roosevelt stated that Byrnes
then came out with “his own brand of
‘get tough with Russia.’ ”
He continued:
(See Page 2)
members of Local 1150 of the
CIO United Electrical Work
ers, was seen as part of a new
“Chicago Plan” for legal
strikebreaking.
Issued in the midst of wage
negotiations, Judge Graber’s in
junction was based on the "no
strike” clause in the contract be
tween the Cory Company and the
union.
Although injunctions have been
issued with increasing frequency
by Chicago courts restricting
picketing, this is the first time
in recent years that an injunction
I has been issued against the right
j to strike itself.
# # *
CHICAGO I’NIO N leaders
,! viewed Graber’s action as a se
, rious threat to the entire labor
movement, and indicated that it
1 would be fought to the U. S. Su
preme Court if necessary.
: “If this injunction is allowed
. to stand, it will endanger not
only the right to strike, but the
constitutional rights of all Amer
• icans,” declared Ernest DeMaio,
» (See Page 16)