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Such reporting by Better Times disturbs the parent Times much as a squeaking Leftist mouse would disturb a capitalist elephant. Most galling is Better Times's latest boast: "A distinct improvement in the New York Times handling of news from Rebel Spain was noticed by readers after the exposure of William Carney as Franco's press agent* in the last issue of Better Times. . . . Mr. [Publisher Arthur Hays] Sulzberger is quoted as saying of the Spanish War, I confess to a vast sense of relief that I do not have to take sides either with Loyalist or Rebel...
...Moscow last week Joseph Stalin wrote a letter calling upon the working class of the capitalist world to organize for the support of the Russian "working class." First reply to this appeal came from a U. S. working man who is as comfortably fixed as any Soviet Commissar -little Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor. Cried Matty Woll: "The Soviet regime deserves no more support from organized labor in democratic countries than do the Governments of Hitler and Mussolini. . . .The American Federation of Labor rejects as impudent Stalin's appeal for support...
...precisely a clarion call for world revolution but it was enough of a hint of old-fashioned Bolshevism to set off speculation on a possible shift in the Communist Party "line." For the keystone of the "line" has lately been not world revolution but co-operation with the capitalist democracies for a collective stand against fascism...
...return to revolutionary principles was at hand, there was no indication of it in the U. S. Communist Party. The Daily Worker appealed to patriotic sentiment by printing a picture of a capitalistic U. S. flag riddled by General Franco's bombers as it flew over Barcelona's Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. building. Meantime the two tiptop U. S. Communists, William Z. Foster and Earl Browder, had returned to Manhattan from Moscow, still talking collective security, which means support of Capitalist Franklin Roosevelt. Mr. Browder, who holds down the same official...
...startled the cynics still further by giving the income from another million to Stephens College (Columbia, Mo.) for consumer education. Conservatives and radicals began to rub their eyes incredulously when they learned three weeks ago what Harold Sloan had done with the third outlay of good capitalist profits...