Chapter 1239 For the American Working Class 1274 American Labor Party

While the Americans on Newfoundland were busy escaping, Captain Cook of the British Royal Navy had already found the organization. The torpedo boat he was riding in held a white flag and went out to sea at 5 a.m. on April 30. Not long after, he encountered a German S-100 torpedo boat. When the other party saw the white flag on his torpedo boat, he did not fire. Instead, he came closer and aimed his 40mm machine gun at it and asked questions. Colonel Cook happened to know some German and explained his purpose to the other party, so at about 7:15 in the morning on April 30, he was taken aboard the battleship Bismarck which was cruising outside Concepcion Bay.

This battleship, which was supposed to be the mortal enemy of the British Royal Navy, now flies a joint flag of the British Army, Navy and Air Force - indicating that a senior general who can command the British Army, Navy and Air Force is aboard this warship. This senior general was none other than Marshal Harold Alexander. He and General Rommel of Germany simultaneously served as the joint commanders of the European Expeditionary Force. Since he had a higher military rank than Rommel, he was also the nominal commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force.

"James, I didn't expect to see you in Newfoundland. It's so great."

Harold Alexander and Colonel James Cook shook hands warmly at the door of the luxuriously equipped wardroom on the Bismarck. They had known each other for a long time - before the outbreak of the war, the circles of school-level officers in the British Army and Royal Navy did not Not big, most of them knew each other.

"Marshal, I am also honored to meet you on a battleship of the German Imperial Navy." James Cook's words seemed to have some thorns in them. It's no wonder that as a captain in the Royal Navy, how could he forget the past glory of the British Empire?

Marshal Alexander shrugged and said with a smile: "I was originally on the Royal Navy's battleship Prince of Wales."

"Battleship Prince of Wales?" Colonel Cook raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, we repaired it. Now this battleship has a new look and has become the flagship of the Royal Navy. It is sailing to Newfoundland." Marshal Alexander said, "I was originally on the Prince of Wales, but the Germans went to There was an atomic bomb dropped in Concepcion Bay. So I came over in a Short Sunderland seaplane... I had to stop them from dropping the atomic bomb on Newfoundland."

"How can you prevent this?" Colonel Cook asked doubtfully.

"Of course," Marshal Alexander smiled, "otherwise the two atomic bombs dropped on the Bay of Fundy would have been dropped on the heads of Naval Fortress Churchill and Fort Pershing (also on the Avalon Peninsula)."

"What? The Bay of Fundy was also bombed by an atomic bomb?" Because the Allied command system on Newfoundland was now in chaos, Colonel James Cook didn't know that the Germans had blown up the US Task Force 56.

"Yes," Marshal Alexander said seriously, "those two atomic bombs were originally intended to blow up you, but Her Majesty the Queen did not agree, so they were thrown on top of a bunch of American aircraft carriers... They probably sunk and destroyed seven or eight An Essex-class aircraft carrier, right? But even if it hadn’t been blown up, those warships would be useless.”

"It's useless if it's not blown up? Why?" Colonel Cook was a little strange.

"Because of nuclear radiation pollution..." Alexander frowned and said, "I don't quite understand. The Germans said that because the atomic bomb explosion occurred in the water, there will be very serious nuclear pollution, and the tide will be contaminated by nuclear pollution. Ships that have been flooded have to be scrapped, otherwise the sailors who use them will get cancer."

"What? There is such a thing?"

"Yes, when you came here, didn't you see that the Germans on the S-class torpedo boats were all wearing white clothes and masks and protective goggles? This is to prevent nuclear contamination."

"Then I..." Colonel Cook then remembered that he seemed to have just passed through the sea area where the atomic bomb exploded on the afternoon of the 29th in a torpedo boat, and he was even wet by the sea water... Was he about to get cancer?

Seeing the water stains on Cook's uniform and the livid face, Marshal Alexander understood something, so he comforted: "There are German doctors on the Bismarck who specialize in treating radiation sickness... When we have discussed the matter of Churchill Naval Fortress's allegiance to the Queen, , let them check you immediately.”

"Okay, okay, let's hurry up." Colonel James Cook nodded quickly.

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"Marshal Imperial, good news, the Churchill Naval Fortress has surrendered! And... the Americans are withdrawing from the Avalon Peninsula!"

"Victory!"

"Long live victory!"

"Long live victory!"

Berlin time, on the afternoon of April 30, 1945, the good news reached the General Staff of Zossen. Although it had been expected, cheers erupted in the General Staff Headquarters.

Because everyone who can work here knows what the change of ownership of the Avalon Peninsula means? Moreover, they all already know the news that the US government has formally sued Germany for peace through the Roman Empire and is willing to pay compensation in accordance with Germany's requirements!

The United States' request for reparations and the change of ownership of the Avalon Peninsula basically meant that the world war that had been fought for nearly six years was finally coming to a successful end.

The German Empire undoubtedly won this world war, and won it very thoroughly.

"Reichsmarschall," Hessmann's personal secretary Natalie appeared in the joint intelligence command center filled with cheers. She leaned close to Hessman and whispered: "Hitler Chancellor's phone number, please. Go to the Prime Minister’s Office immediately.”

"Okay, I'll be there right away." Hersmann nodded with a smile. He knew that Hitler had already known that the Avalon Peninsula was about to fall into the hands of the German army.

As the German Chancellor, he had the right to know the progress of the war, so his military adjutant, Major General Keitel, would keep in touch with the General Staff at any time.

"I'm going to see the Prime Minister," Hersmann said to Raeder and Guderian who were in the Joint Intelligence Command Center, "The war seems to be really over... Now it's time to consider the arrangements for post-war North America and Australia."

Post-war Europe and South America have been arranged, and the fate of the Middle East and India is also in the hands of the German Empire. Now only North America and Australia are left.

"Imperial Marshal, we shouldn't need to launch an attack on the US mainland anymore, right?" asked Guderian, the first quartermaster general.

The plan to launch air strikes and nuclear strikes on the US mainland is also part of the Fort Gotch plan! In the German General Staff's expectation, losing Newfoundland or the Avalon Peninsula on Newfoundland may not be enough to make most Americans recognize the reality of defeat. So it may be necessary to drop an atomic bomb on the US mainland!

"Not necessarily," Hersman thought for a while, "We still need to prepare, after all, we haven't won the final victory yet... Although the Americans are now frightened by the three atomic bombs, they are not without the power to resist. Truman may really want to make peace, but the domestic politics in the United States is very complicated now, even Roosevelt can't control it, let alone Truman, a lame president who has no majority support in Congress?"

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For the United States of America at the end of April 1945, seeking peace is no longer a simple diplomatic task, but a power reshuffle involving the game of various political forces in the United States.

Considering the weakness of the Democratic Party in Congress, the aggressiveness of the Bolshevik Party and the Fascist Party, and the upcoming mid-term elections in 1946. The game now surrounding the peace talks seems to determine the ownership of the real big cake of the United States of America!

Compared with the huge compensation of 200 billion to 400 billion US dollars, the United States of America, the chosen country, is the real huge wealth. Whoever owns it will have inexhaustible wealth.

In addition, whoever wins this power game will decide who in the country will bear the bitter fruit of the United States' defeat!

Is it the vast majority of American working people who will pay for the defeat, or the monopoly capitalists with huge wealth who will pay for the reparations?

On the way from Washington, D.C. to Chicago by train, Wallace, who had just left office, was discussing with his important ally, Philip Morley, chairman of the American Industrial Union, how to defend the interests of the American working class in the future - and empty the pockets of the American bourgeoisie by the way.

There is no way around it. After losing the world war, there is no win-win route for the distribution of domestic interests in the United States.

Now either the working class loses all the rights since Roosevelt's New Deal, returns the country to the capitalists, and at the same time bears another hyperinflation - hyperinflation is actually a compulsory taxation of the entire population, which can help the US government raise enough materials and gold and silver in the short term to pay war reparations.

Or it is to deprive the American bourgeoisie and impose heavy taxes on them to raise reparations, or even go further and nationalize in the United States, following the path that the Soviet Union once took.

However, Wallace and Philippe Morel had no idea of ​​revolution. Their route was still legal struggle. However, legal struggle faced a big problem. Now the legislative power in the United States was not in the hands of the working class.

The Bolshevik Party had 32 seats in the House of Representatives and 4 seats in the Senate, while the Democratic New Deal Coalition in the United States, which Wallace could influence, had only 19 seats in the House of Representatives and none in the Senate. Even if the 38 seats of the American Fascist Party in the House of Representatives, which ostensibly claimed to represent the interests of workers, were counted, there were only 89 seats in total, not even a quarter of the House of Representatives.

"Philip," Wallace had already thought of a countermeasure, and he said to Philip Morley, "Although we have to take legal means of struggle, we cannot rely on the majority vote of Congress to win. At least before the 1946 mid-term election, we cannot win. The only feasible way is to strike and protest in the streets."

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"Strike and protest in the streets?" Philip Morley thought for a while, "That's no problem. I think John Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, will also support us. In 1943, he broke the wartime convention of not striking and launched a general strike of 500,000 coal miners."

John Lewis is a big figure in the American labor movement. He was born as a coal miner and has long controlled the United Mine Workers of America. He is also the founder and former chairman of the American Federation of Industrial Organizations. Of course, he is also an active supporter of Roosevelt's New Deal. However, because he opposed Roosevelt's re-election as president for a third term, he resigned as chairman of the "CIO" in 1940. Not long after, he parted ways with CIO President Morley over the issue of "no strikes during wartime". He also led the United Mine Workers of America to withdraw from the CIO and launched a wartime strike, forcing employers to increase coal miners' wages by $1.5 per day.

Such a ruthless man who can put the interests of workers above the outcome of the war will naturally not agree to let the working class pay for the defeat of the United States. Therefore, Philippe Morlay believes that Lewis and his coal miners' union can be brought back to the "CIO" again, and everyone can deal with the evil capitalists together.

"Okay, when we get to Chicago, I'll go with you to meet Lewis." Wallace had also dealt with Lewis and knew that this man was very capable of causing trouble. He nodded and said, "We must pull him in." On our side, if Lindbergh takes the lead, we will be in trouble."

Although John Lewis was a leader of the labor movement, he was not pro-Soviet, let alone a Bolshevik, and could not even be considered a communist. He is a "gangster"-type worker leader who dares to fight and fight. He has no political opinions and is dedicated to raising wages for workers.

Such labor leaders can easily be won over by the fascist party, allowing the fascist party to break into trade unions that originally had no basis. In this way, in the 1946 midterm elections, the fascist party could seize more territory that originally belonged to the Democratic Party.

"But under what name do we want to organize strikes and demonstrations?" Philippe Morlay then asked, "What we want to organize is a political strike? How do we call on workers? Henry, you know, American workers are Rather short-sighted, they only care about immediate interests.”

This is a problem. American workers are unlikely to go on strike for political purposes. Increasing wages and benefits is the main purpose of their strikes. They have little interest in helping working-class parties seize control of Congress.

"And it's 1945 now, more than a year before the congressional midterm elections." Morley frowned and said, "If Truman and the Republican Party collude to complete the peace talks before the midterm elections, then it will be a fait accompli that the interests of the American working class will be sacrificed. ”

"This is actually Truman's conspiracy!" Wallace gritted his teeth and replied: "In his plan, the peace talks must be completed before the mid-term elections. He will use the advantages of the Democratic Party (some members who support Truman) and the Republican Party in Congress to pass A peace treaty in favor of the United States was also passed (in exchange for Republican support) to repeal a number of New Deal bills.

After such a deal, the Democratic Party may collapse in the 1946 midterm elections, but the Republican Party will not collapse. Instead, it will continue to grow while absorbing some of the political power of the Democratic Party and gain a majority of seats in Congress.

After that, there may be a strange pattern in American politics in which the Republican-controlled Congress supports the Democratic government. With the support of Republican congressmen, Truman could remain president until the end of his term. The Republican Party can use a Democratic government that is destined to have no preconditions to do things that are inconvenient for them to do, depriving the American working class and selling out American interests! "

Wallace is indeed a veteran player in Washington, and he knows very well what Truman and the Republican Party are going to do next - maybe Truman himself has not figured out what to do next, but Wallace has already foreseen the only way he can go. .

"What should we do?" When Wallace said this, the union leader Molay was already a little confused.

"We must delay the peace negotiation process," Wallace said, "We must not allow Truman to complete the peace negotiations in 1945... If they are going to collude to sell out the interests of the United States and the American working class, then they should vote in the election Just do it. Because the votes in the hands of the American people are most valuable only during elections.”

Philip Morley asked: "So we can have enough hope to stop Truman and the Republicans in the 1946 midterm elections?"

"This is impossible," Wallace shook his head, "but we will obtain enough seats in Congress to ensure that we can lead the struggle of working people in the American political arena in the future."

"In other words, we still can't stop Truman from betraying the interests of the United States and the working class?"

Philippe Morlay was a little disappointed. He originally thought that Wallace's method could at least prevent the repeal of the New Deal bill, but the result was still an election manipulation.

Wallace glanced at Morley and whispered: "This is not meaningless... If we want to truly protect the interests of the American working class, we must lead them to obtain legislative and executive power in the United States. And in the mid-terms of 1946 The election will be the beginning of our realization of this ambitious goal.”

"Are we...the American Bolshevik Party?" Molay asked with some uncertainty.

He is a New Dealer, not a Bolshevik, and he does not want the United States to become a communist country like the Soviet Union.

"No, I am not a GC." Wallace laughed. "We are referring to the Labor Party of America...a new political party that represents the broadest interests of the working people of the United States. It will include moderate Bolsheviks and The left wing of the Democratic Party and labor groups have become leaders.”

It turned out that Wallace did not want to take the left wing of the Democratic Party to vote for G at all, but wanted to establish an American Labor Party with himself as the leader, and also wanted the American Bolshevik Party to join the Labor Party.

Molay was still a little skeptical, "Henry, is there any way you can make those Bolsheviks come with us?"

"Yes!" Wallace glanced at Morley, "We have a union, and... I still have a way to stall the peace talks led by Truman."

"Delaying Truman's peace talks?" Molay asked, "How?"

"Tunde!" Wallace lowered his voice and replied, "There is a secret diplomatic communication channel between Truman and Hitler that bypasses Congress and the Communist Party... Once this matter is revealed, Truman will face The Crisis of Impeachment.”

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"Yes, there was a secret channel of communication between me and Truman."

Just when Truman was about to face the "Tongdemen Investigation", Adolf Hitler openly admitted "Tongmei" to Hersman.

However, his "Tongmei" did not violate German law, and with the strength of the Nazi Party, it was impossible to pass the impeachment of Hitler in the German Reich Parliament.

"Judging from the voluntary withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Avalon Peninsula," Hitler told Hersmann, "the secret channel between Truman and I can work, and Truman's sincerity for peace has also been proven. I think "We should have a ceasefire first and then have peace talks."

"As long as the Avalon Peninsula is captured, there will be a ceasefire." Hersman gently turned the coffee cup in his hand and asked with a smile: "Adolphe, how much should we ask Truman for?"

500 billion Euromarks was the asking price before Germany took over the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and dropped three atomic bombs. Under the current situation, it is willing to pay more.

"How about 100-800 billion Euromarks?" Hitler considered and said, "75-80 billion of which will be paid in gold and silver, and the rest we will collect grain, livestock, cotton, crude steel, coal, petroleum products and non-ferrous metals... …Except for gold, silver and some of the grain and livestock that Russia urgently needs, the rest of the compensation can be paid in 15-20 years.”

Hitler didn't seem to want to kill the democratic old hen of the United States that only lays golden eggs - he would soon be the head of the socialist family of the United States of Europe, where there are hundreds of millions of Aryan bosses... and later... We need to build and provide welfare, and there are more places to spend money. Of course, we must find ways to get more from Americans. Therefore, it would not be in the interests of Hitler and the Nazi Party if the United States were really in chaos.

"So what arrangements will be made for Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Caribbean islands?" Hersman then asked.

“We must take control of Canada,” Hitler said, “first let it be a kingdom under the British Empire. The king can be Princess Margaret or Queen Elizabeth. This is a matter for the British themselves.

Australia and New Zealand, we must first reach an agreement with the Japanese, otherwise we will not be able to send too many troops there. In addition, Japan is our friend after all. Since we have negotiated peace with the United States, they should also negotiate with the United States. "

The issue of Japan-US negotiations made Hitler feel a little troubled, because after the dispute between Japan and the United States ends, it is possible to join forces, which is actually detrimental to Germany. Moreover, Japan itself does not have the power to subdue the United States. Even if the United States is now facing defeat in the Atlantic, their small military force in the Pacific can still put huge pressure on Japan.

If Germany forces the United States to surrender to Japan, it will actually act as a villain to clear the way for the United States and Japan to join forces!

In addition, the pro-Nazi American fascist forces extremely hate Japan...

Hitler was silent for a while, then frowned and said: "As for the Caribbean islands, now that Canada can use them, I do not support the establishment of a Caribbean federation. That will become a big burden, and it is not in line with us." interests. Moreover, the Spaniards are not Aryans, and Franco has little desire to join the United States of Europe. In fact, the Americans are more qualified to join the United States of Europe than the Spaniards...if they drive away the blacks and Jews in the country. if."