The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-06-19
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtchet Out
The Truth
. ARE WE, OR AREN'T WE?
THE GOVERNMENT STILL
LIVES
. RIGHT TO LEGITIMATE
STRIKES BE MAINTAINED
FULL BLAST, FULL SPEED
Things are happening fast.


. FULL BLAST, FULL SPEED
Things are happening fast.
Troops march into the plant OF
North American Aviation.
An American freighter is sent to
the bottom.
An American destroyer has dropped
depth bombs on a Nazi submarine.
Before you read these lines many
more things may have happened.
People keep asking-Are we at war,
or are we not?
The answer is, as it has been for
about year-Surely we are at war.
President Roosevelt is trying to
quell insurrection at home and at the
same time trying to force the Axis to
fire the first shot in shooting warfare.
SO, everything is at skies and sew
ens-on the surface.
Underneath the surface, we are at
war-desperate war, to see who sinks,
who swims.
The affair North American Avia-
tion was as foregone as the coming
of the birds.
In any clash with it's own citizens,
| the government cannot permit itself to
| lose.
A government that loses is no
longer government!
The Commies who were back of that t
| California strike knew that we'll
enough.
So did President Roosevelt
| And "the government in Washing
ton still lives"
One cannot have much sympathy
with the CIO top officials. They nur-
tured the reds. They huddled up with
them, put them in key jobs, listened
to them, regarded them as hot stuff.
| If anybody wants bill of particu-
lars they can have it.
But for now just two samples-the
top flight Commies who were sent into
Detroit, particularly into the CIO-
AUW publicity set-up; and the load
ing OF them into Labor's (so-called)
Non-Partisan League in Washington
after Maj. George Berry was deftly
set aside. Somebody want some
more?
So, the strike that crippled aviation
production was, in the beginning, nur-
tured by the tops of CIO. Now they
have the pay-of; and it isn't pretty.
One trouble today is that lot of
chiefs are talking without reckoning
up the local Communist and Nazi
strength. u
A little eye-opening year ago
would have been good idea; but at
that time those who pointed with
alarm were regarded as crack pots
So, ladies and gentlemen, dear sirs
and brothers, we see what we see.
Well, Franklin d. Roosevelt is COM
: mander in chief and he has an awfully
big army which he can send hither and
yon, where the trouble makers are.
! The reds and the Nazi spies talk
about their right to free speech, which
is what we should expect. But who,
in Germany, Italy or Russia would
f dare call a strike to stop any govern
ment work-or any work?
Most German trade union leaders
. are under the sod-the others are skin
and bones in filthy concentration
camps.
The right to legitimate strikes
should be maintained; but what right
has an enemy alien agent to any
American safeguard?
X X X
So much for that. When will the
shooting start?
OF course, it seems it has started.
But when will it get going for keeps?
Nobody knows and it doesn't make
much difference.
We actually are in the war to knock
out the Axis powers, fully and finally.
Regardless of shooting, much of the
outcome will depend upon keeping fac
II tory wheels turning. To that we must
/ make up our minds. 1t is matter
+ of national life and death.
q The time for doing things in a
y normal" way has passed. Serious
y strikes, in war jobs, are out, COM
L pletely.
/ The shooting will come soon enough.
Meanwhile, production for war must
! go on full blast, full speed.
i Maybe some will have to suffer a
: little, temporarily.
It But man, if we lose, we are all 60
= ing to suffer eternally!
= Which doesn't leave much to argue
Is about, does it?-CMW.