Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-07
lLaGuardia
Called Peril
To America
New York VIII Awake to
Fact. PeeIer Asserts a
By ,WESTBROOK PEGLER

~ ILL sun 'nS'"'
w people of New York made q
mistake in electing Fiorello La
Guardia for a third term and
that before this term is over
those ultra-libera1 liberals who
supported him will wish they
hadn't, because LaGuardia is
New Deal or new order in lock-
step with President Roosevelt
and is, moreover, a little tyrant
with an obscene tongue.
The idea that Tammany. re-
turned to power. would neces-
sarily be the same old Tammany
is neither demonstrable nor as
bad as il sounds at its worst
when Tammany is compared TO
the New Deal or new order.
Under Tammany the thieving
and grating are strictly ortho-
doX and the people have learned
by long and expensive expert
ence how TO throw the raScalS
out OF office and, few Of Them.
into prison, when the party gets
too rough.
But the people have not yet
learned how TO head off or cope
with the New Deal or new order,
because this system operates
under tho guiSe Of Legality and
reform but still achieves the
same effects in political organi-
cation which are deemed SO evil
under Tammany and admittedly
are as evil as they seem.
The New Deal or new order
tends toward communism or ma
tional socialism with the party
workers in the public hire as
reformers but with peculiar
power TO regulate the lives OF
the citizens. not only in the fac
tories and other urban industry
but on the farm as well.
TT DRIVES countless unwilling
Il victims into the unions, where
they are subject 10 income taxes
and extortions and 10 the rule Of
selves, beginning now 10 appear
distinctly in the role of sublead-
erS sub lect- To no laws and en-
couraged by the so-called labor
policy Of the administration.
LaGuardia has said no word
against this extension OF the po-
lltical power of the government
into the private existence OF the
workers and his name is at
tached TO a congressional act.
along with that OF Senator Nor
riS of Nebraska. which, IN con-
junction with a couple OF other
acts, Confers on the unioneer n
legal right 10 establish unofficial
SubdictatorshipS. collect inter-
state and even interstate tariffs
and BalkanIZe the whole nation
into thousands OF petty luris-
dictions beyond which American
citizens may not venture In pur-
suit of living except on the
payment of tribute.
The mayor of New York has
never been reticent on other
subjects outside the scope of his
office. including the foreign pol
icy of the nation, but he has
never been heard TO say any,
thing which would have chal-
lenged the ire Of the unioneer
who is supposed to be able 10
deliver the votes Of the rank
and file.
NOR that matter. no politician
L of any prominence has yet
challenged unioneers. but this
New Deal or new order has or
gained them into a political
auxiliary Of the party. and Isl
protecting their power and liqui-
dating the common man as an
individual human being.
Tammany's power is old-style
and can be broken as LaGuardia
demonstrated and cti1t-r- oiti-Styfe-
organizations have been smashed
i'm Kansas City and Boston when
the people finally got plumb dis
gusted.
But the power of the New
Deal or new order is subtle and
the people arc taught 10 regard
-+l4e-leeal -Aes1es-t9fa- leaders rs
their benefactors and protectors
and this new power never lets
them go.
II is foolish to believe that
LaGuardia'S tolerance of Com.
munistS and fellow-travelers in
his administration was uninten-
tional or unavoidable.
lie keeps bundistS and Fascists
out. you may have noticed, and
the same arbitrary discrimina-
ton that keeps them out. could
keep the Communists and trav-
elerS at a distance.
He has tolerated them because
the New Deal or new order finds
them congenial and helpful and
because they are all going the
same way. the difference boipg
that the Communist and tr/Veler
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