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HAPPY NEW YEAR
Caught Red-Handed
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(Philadelphia Record)
More than a month ago President Roosevelt revealed German
plans to abolish all religions and establish a Nazi - dominated
■church with a credo derived from Hitler’s “Mein Kampf."
There was some scoffing in this country.
There were loud denials from Berlin.
But now we learn — not from Washington, not from London
—but in i dispatch from Berlin, passed by the German censor,
that the Nazis do have a blueprint for abolishing the Christian
religion.
The proof is contained in a book called “Gott und Volk”
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(God and Nation) widely circulated among Nazi elite. When we
recall that possession by Nazi party members of forbidden liter-1
■ature means loss of party membership if not a concentration
camp, and that publishers have great difficulty in obtaining pa
per for any but official books—we don’t need a Nazi imprimatur
to know that it has official approval.
The book outlines a religious “new order” that would re
place all Christian churches, whether Catholic or Protestant,
with a national “German faith."
The book declares: “We Germans have been called by fate
to be the first to break with Christianity; it is to be an honor.”
It proclaims: “Germany is our holy land. It will be our
religion.”
This is final proof — although few of us needed this final
proof—that Hitler is the enemy not only of freedom of speech,
freedom of assembly and the other freedoms we enjoy, but also
of freedom of religion. It is a reminder, too, that he proposes to
abolish not only those churches that might actively oppose him,
but all churches.
1 here can be no freedom in the world — for anything but
Nazism—as long as Hitler lives.
Hie Last of John L. Lewis
(Philadephia Record)
T oe miners are back at work in the captive mines.
Defense production goes forward. There will be no halt.
These arc important facts in America today.
They are much more important than the utter and complete
backdown of John L. Lewis in calling off his personal strike
against the President of the United States, against defense, and
against the nation.
Indee, President Roosevelt’s victory in this crisis is only in
part a victory over an egomaniac who though he was bigger than
bis country.
The greater triumph is over the one man who would have1
benefited if this strike had lasted long enough to sabotage de
fense.
Hitler.
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The Presidents handling of this delicate issue was a master
piece of statecraft.
It would have been easy to yield to the clamor for bluster
and troops. But that kind of rough-and-tumble opposition is what
Lewis would have relished.
Instead, the President used those equally effective weapons:
patience, courage and restraint.
Mr. Roosevelt knew force was unnecessary. He knew Lewis
had put himself in such a shameful position before the country,
and especiallc before labor—that he could not possibly maintain
that position.
The public was under no illusions. It wfas well aware that
Lewis was sabotaying defense, that he had no real pretext for a
a strike —because his clamor for a union ship could not covter
up the fact that 95 percent of the workers in the captive mines
are members of the United Mine Workers NOW.
Thus, this issue which called out all the miners —actually
involved only five percent of them.
How far Lewis had overreached himself; howr thoroughly he
had alienated the support of his own CIO was painfully evident
at the Detroit convention. For while the CIO, for obvious rea
sons, passed one resolution supporting Lewis’ mine strike —
It passed half a dozen other resolutions which repudiated ev
erything which Lewis was doing to the nation’s defense.
Those men out there knew—as Lewis’ on miners knew—that
the whole future of the labor movement was being thrown into
a reckless gamble in which Lewis’ sole stake was the attempted
humiliation of the President of the United States.
Only Lewis was so blinded his own; ego he could not see
that the American people would not stand for that.
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ASK you TO "Buy AT HOME”
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Build Air Route
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By ROBERT J. CASEY
HITEJIOURSE, Y. T, Canada—
Looking back at the war from
this point of view, a sawed-off
mountaintop under the northern
lights, it appears that the most
spectacular, if ont the most im
portant achievement of the Unit
ed States’ defense problem, has
been achieved by the dominion
of Canada on Canadian time and,
believe it or not, with Canadian
money.
For this frozen paradise is
the keynote of a new 'and amaz
ing air route from the United
States to Canada, or say, from
Kelly Field (Texas) to Tokyo;
its ground paths and landing
fields have been literally cut out
of an unexplored wilderness to
trim 1000 mile or more off the
trans-Paeific crossing, to skip the
menace of veiled mountain peaks
and glacial ridges and to dupe
the fickle weather that hitherto
has made flying in the north so
hazardous and uncertain.
Fast-service, regular-service,
safe-service—American bombers
are getting up here now in a mat
ter of a few hours, flying an in
terior route where there are few
er mountains than along the
coastal skyways and the weather
is more set in its way.
Tomorrow the ships of a well
managed commercial airline can
be doing the same thing, al
though nobody seems to be think
ing much about that phase of the
business just now.
WHITEHORSE BEAM
A couple of day ago a nice
looking lad named MeDougall
threw a switch in the Whitehorse
airport radio shack. There was
no ceremony about it, no gover
nors cutting ribbons, or driving
gold spikes, or anything like that
The only witnesses to the histor
ic event were some painters and
carpenters whose work is not
quite finished.
South of the border, 1000 mil-*
es away, it is hardly likely that
any patriotic American knew
yhat was going on, which is some
thing of a pity for the closing
of that switch meant just about
as much to the Pacific coast of
the United States as the launch
ing of a couple of battleships. It
turned on the power in t'he first
of the radio beam stations that in
a few more weeks will be lead
ing airplane blindly, but unerr
ingly, through night and fog and
tempest and snow from Calgary
to Nome.
(To be continued in the next
issue of the Nugget).
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Carrying an Assortment
of Fine Liquors. Win
es, and Beers.
FRONT STREET, NOME
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DELIVERY
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FACE MINE UNION OFFICIALS IN MEETING
Before going to the White House where Presiden' Roosevelt told them the "government will never
compel" the minority non-union miners affected b their dispute to join the union, John L. Lewis
(left), president of the United Mine Workers; P ilip Murray (center), president of the CIO, and
Thtmas Kennedy (right), secretary treasurer of the mine workers, faced 200 members of the un
ion’s policy committee in Washington.
DAKAR V I EW —Hints that Hitler may try to put Dakar
(above), important French West African port only 1,620 miles
from Natal, Brazil, under Nazi domination are heard since ouster of
Gen. Maxime Weygand. who opposed concessions to Axis powers.
BACK TO WORK IN MINES ^
The Captive mine littjke over when arbitration was agreed upon,
miners at the H. C. Frick Buffington Captive coal mine at Union
town, Pa., go back to work on the night shift. Here they are en
tering the cage to go down into the pit of one of western Penn
sylvania’s highest producing mines.