The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-08-15
Fdcing the Facts
With PHILIP PEARL

He is getting awfully scared OF the
little men. There is no other way we
can account for his fantastically
secret manipulation of his puny, per-
sonal political puppet, Labor's Non
Partisan League.
The day after Eli Oliver resigned
as director of the league, Lewis or
dered all the locks changed in the
leagues suite of twelve rooms in the
Earle Building at Washington. We
haven't been shopping around there
ourselves. This information comes to
us by way of an article by Will Allen
in the Washington Daily News.
According to Mr.. Allen, O. l.. Gar
rison, comptroller of the league, ad-
mitted the locks had been changed
because there were lot of keys out"
He didn't see any significance in the
action. But Mr.. Allen dug deeper. He
discovered, he says, that keys for the
new locks were not distributed to any
employe of the league who was re-
garded as a supporter of Sidney Hill
man. And then came the payoff.
''Black-browed Lewis" writes Mr..
Allen, personally descended on the
leagues office to conduct the cleanout
that has practically denuded it of all
staff. Not a single person identified
with Sidney Hillman remains on the
leagues payroll here, it was learned"
Secret Society
Thus, in approved Communist con-
spiratorial fashion, Mr.. Lewis is pro-
ceeding to make the league secret
society composed of lot of eyes"
men. The word "No" is verboten in
Soviet Russia, in Nazi Germany, in
Fascist Italy, in the Communist Party
in this country and in Labor's Non
Partisan League or in any other or
ganization dominated by Lewis.
All this secret, high-handed stuff
is rapidly getting Lewis the gate. He
all but admitted it the other day in
his speech before the CIO auto work
ers convention. He said:
"If the day should come, as it we'll
may, when your support is withheld
from me, | shall accept your judg-
ment and no longer annoy you with
my counsels or advice"
Mr.. Lewis, that day has come. You
predicted that President Roosevelt, if
ne ran for a third term, would go
down to "ignomnious defeat" The
auto workers, a few days after your
speec h, enthusiastically endorsed
Roosevelt for third term.
Practically all of the CIO leaders
are up in arms against you, Mr.. Lewis,
because Of your slavish devotion to
the Communist Party line, because of
your high -an9;s-iss iss9sty political policies
and because Of your adamant refusal
to permit peace in the labor move
ment.
Until now, Mr. Lewis, you have been
you controlled the CIO purse-strings.
The boys were scared to death of you.
Now, you have become so ludicrous a
public figure that they are laughing
at you and daring to line up against
you.
News About Newsmen
Disgust with the CIO brand of
Communism is manifesting itself with
particular force among the newspaper
men in New York City who are wash
ing their hands of the Red dominated
American Newspaper Guild and flock
ing in large numbers to the newly
organized American Newswrters AS
sociation, chartered by the American
Federation of Labor.
This local union, only couple of
weeks old, is making rapid strides.
According to reports from New York
just received, more than a hundred
newspaper writer's on the New York
Times have joined already. Also the
group has signed up and pledged a
ma ajority of the writer's on the New
York Daily Mirror. Organization is
progressing rapidly on the New York
Herald Tribune staff and among re-
porters working for other dailies in
the big city.
This news doesn't surprise us in the
least. Newspapermen in New York
and other cities are shrewd, hard
headed Discerning bunch. They are
sick of being used as stooges by a
Communist clique. They want their
own union. They want to run it their
own way for their own benefit. They
do not want to belong to union of
scrubwomen and miscellaneous en-
ployes, much as they would like to help
them. They do not want their union
run by group of Communists for the
benefit Of the Communist Party or the
Stain regime in Soviet Russia.
, And they don't want a secret society
like Labor's Partisan League
presuming to speak for them political
ly.