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...labor is to be a force in politics, it must clean its hands and stop thinking of itself as an oppressed group, Victor Riesel, syndicated Hearst columnist, told the Law School Forum on "Labor in Politics" last night at New Lecture Hall...
...Riesel was the only non-labor representative on the four-man panel, which also included Gus Tyler, political head of David Dubinsky's ILGWU, Robert Segal, counsel for the Massachusetts Federation of Labor, and Al Barkan, chairman of the political division of CIO textile workers...
...days before, two New York labor reporters had asked John L. Lewis the most unexpected question of the year: Would he support F.D.R. for re-election in 1944? The dead-pan answer, indirectly quoted by the N.Y. Post's young labor columnist Victor Riesel: "It all depended on whom the Republicans nominated [Lewis] said almost softly. . . . Lewis would probably take Governor Dewey. Any other G.O.P. nomination would force him to consider backing Mr. Roosevelt...
...million readers. Of such might, the mere remaining shadow is the Manhattan weekly, the New Leader. Under forced draft it pulls 43,000 readers-mostly among Manhattan and Hollywood malcontents and old Socialists who sigh for the good old days. Its assistant editor-tireless, 5 ft. 2 in. Victor Riesel-is also most of the New Leader's editorial staff (he writes under five noms de guerre and is the New Leader's Washington Bureau besides...
...main claim to distinction-as bellwether for exile and native anti-Communists in the U. S. Among them: Willi Schlamm, leader at 16 of the Austrian Communist Party, one of the first to break with Stalin; Eugene Lyons (Assignment in Utopia); the late General Walter Krivitsky. For Editor Riesel these characteristic contributors afforded a probable reason for the visit: Communist footpads were looking for the address of Richard Julius Herman Krebs, alias Jan Valtin, ex-Communist author of Out of the Night, currently best-selling Baedeker of the Stalinist underworld. The raiders found no addresses...