Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-27
Calls Union
Picke+s
T erroris+s
Peeler Says Congress
Should End Power
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER


sentation in comparing the
goons or pickets Of the unions
with the brown shirts of Hitlerx
earlier days in Germany.
Possibly / am foresighted, but
l think that is the worst criti-
cism that can be made Of this
line of discussion.
Up TO now, those terrorists---
and they are nothing else but
are not acting under the di-
rect command of any elected
Hieaaet-rstit-it-e aHHbs-
demonstrated that they do act
without hindrance from the
national government or the SUI
preme Court
Predictions are out of my
line, but / will undertake TO
show that the goons who close
factories by force and intimida-
ton are a menace 10 the liber-
ties of US all. including the
workers whose battles they pro-
fess TO fight, and that they have
committed their offenses know
ing that the national govern
ment will view them with a
tolerant eye.
THESE people have assumed
police powers. powers OF
censorship and The right to fais
the private lives OF union mem
bers, and they grow bolder day
by day.
They take il on themselves at
the command of unruly and am
bilious bosses, to declare an
industry unfair, even when the
industry has no voice in a con-
troversy, one way or another.
and throw picket tines which are
nothing but privileged mobs.
They here present a threat OF
force against any American cIti-
zen who wants TO so TO his work
and. meanwhile. BY phone and
personal visit they carry the
message of terror TO the families.
When employers have done
that they have been condemned
by these same unions and by an
overwhelming weight OF public
opinion. / submit that such con-
duct is equally wrong on the
part OF a union, and the more
dangerous now because II is
committed with government
sanction.
This persuades the workers
who want 10 90 10 their Jobs and
the vast majority OF the other
citizens that their government
ACTUALLY lldS SOfd rhem out 10
the mob leaders
NOT many Of u really sppfe-
" ciate the arrogance OF the
unioneers.
A waitress recently sent me a
call from her local union TO at
tend a meeting al which the
members would have the dis
tinguished privilege of hearing
an address by the national presl-
dent, who. in Miami and Chi
cago. turned the Mattresses.
bartenderS and other saloon and
restaurant help over TO the
mercies Of union bosses. and
political speech by boss of the
local who was a candidate for
local public office.
Failing TO attend the members
would be fined s. and even
though they had worked as late
as $50 p. m. they had TO come
anyway or pay the fine
In Chicago. recently, A MEM
Der of a local union announced
that one brother IN his little
lodge had been fined S25 for
reading the Chicago Tribune
which had been placed on the
index for publishing stories
about criminals in the unions.
In Los Angeles. a woman was
warned that if she patronized
certain grocery her husband
would be fired out Of the union
and thus blackballed from en-
ployment in any unionized &C.
cupation anywhere in the land
of his birth and citizenship.
THESE are not horrible eX-
L ampleS. They are typical
instances and r til er on the
mild side. for they do not con-
Germ the real threats OF death
or injury. which are used to-
keep American citizens terror
lied, or many cases of actual
killing and beating by the goons.
Ii takes few men. given 10
violence and other methods OF
terror such as the German
brown shirts employed, TO whip
into fearful submission a mass
of other people many times their
number
A union has no more right
than the Ku Klux Khan or the
silver shirts 20 resort 10 the
club and the Secret terror. but,
nevertheless, we find that these
goons enjoy a special privilege.
Thus organized and. trained
and hardened in their ruthless