The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-18
LABOR IS LOYAL

The strike az the North American
Aviation company plant in ln9lewood.
California, has brought something more
than q showdown between Government
and Labor; it has brought showdown
between decent, honest, loyoI trodes
unonsm and the Conmunistc fringe
of trouble-mokers who seek to use
Labor for their own purposes
National leadership Of the c. ]. 0.
United Automobile Workers hos olisn-
ed squoreIy with the Government in
uroino negotiations before the Defense
Mediation Board without stopPoge OF
work. 1t hos ousted Wyndhom Nor
timer, former JAW viee-president and
oIeoed follower Of the Communist
porty line, who alone of notionol union
offcioIs sponsored the strike. The local
leadership is apparently Of the immo-
ture or adventure type OF which the
wouId-be fomenters Of "closs war"
make use.
The outcome Of this and other de-
Tense strikes is bound to be resound-
ma slop to those who think or preach
that America is divided. The interests
of all classes in America today ore
merged in one interest to preserve
freedom and democracy oeoinst either
Communism or Nozism The over
whelnina majority of Labor will re-
spond to the appeal Of President Roose-
Welt to iron out industrial disputes
without stoppooe Of work" especially
since the machinery Of foir and
friendly adjustment Of workers oriev-
onces is in operation.
1t is sofe to soy thot the use OF
Federal troops, which in ordinary cir
cumstonces would be resented by or
oonized labor, will be approved by the
great mojority in the eose OF serious
defense strikes as q means OF preserv-
ing the riohtto work for those who trust
to mediotion and who want to serve
their country at the workbench.
In all probability the proportion OF
genuinely patriotic and loyol workers
in America is as greet as it wos shown
to be in Brition by the vote in the Brit
ish Labor Party lost week when the
suggestion Of q negotiated peoce" wos
showed under by z, Ale, 900 to 30, 900.
The people who cost thot vote, be it
remembered, ore the little folk whose
tenements have been bombed, who
have renounced the use Of their full
labor bargaining force for the duration
Of the war, and who yet see enough at
stoke to hang grmIy on.
American workers must see at leost
os clearly as the implications Of what
happens in their own streets and toc-
tories as does Virginia 0oydo. the Fos-
cist editor, 5000 miles away. 0oydo
the other doy pretended thot defense
strikes in the United Stotes. mention
ing that at North American Aviation,
we're the first phose Of civil war which
would break the notionol unity Of the
United Stotes German Maxi propo-
eondists, it is reported, have been os-
siduousy spreading the same su99es-
ton in lotin America.
These oeents Of dissension ore in
for disilIusionment The fringe Of dis
Loyalty is such q small margin on the
edge of the American labor movement
that it can be sheored off with no op-
preciobIe loss and in foct tremendous
gain to organized Iobor Every test
such os that in the Los Angeles suberb
Of IneIewood helps to define the line
for sheorine. The next move Of the
Government should be toward show
down in. the mochinists' strike in the
shpyords Of the Son Francisco Boy
oreo. Wherever the opportunity to
work is assured OF foir wooes under the
eye Of the notiono mediation services,
the answer will come back, "lobor is
loyal"