The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-08
Fair ENOUGH
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER.

- VI ttS III
may not always harmonic
with its position.-The Editor.
NEW YORK, Jan. THE North
west Organizer, the official publi-
cation of the Transfers Joint
council of Minneapolis, has reprint
ed an editorial which presents very
we'll the reaction of the mercenary
unioneer to revelations of crooked.
ness on the part of his pals. This
or anization, incidentally, is a po-
%litical freak, being one of the few
elements in the A. F. of L. in
which the communist influence is
dominant.
The Northwest Organizer replies
to detailed, specific disclosures Of
criminality in labor organization
by citing a number recent cases
involving persons and firms en-
gagged in other lines.
First
First is that of a New York
brokerage firm Caught swindling''
customers out of $50, coo, certain
ly," the Organizer observes, "a
minor pecadillo for a Wall street
outfit"
Next, the Organizer says, "a
boss newspaper" and two of its Of
ficers were just convicted of CON
spiracy in restraint of trade.
Next, I'll conspiratorH who mo-
nopolize the nations nitrate pro-
ducts" have just been indicted on
a charge of conspiracy to control
supply and price.
Then we have a New York bro.
ker, sentenced to a year in jail
for fraud, and an item from a
southern city in which 38 cops were
found guilty of taking bootleg
brides and another was fined $50
for cursing a colored witness
against him.
A New York insurance broker,
charged with criminal assault on
a l~7-year-old girl, is next on the
list, the Northwest Organizer o.
serving that the rape of children
is "a common practice of the rica
who love to talk about the sanctity
of the home and how the Reds are
out to destroy it."
There are four other citations,
including the Howard Hopson case,
but these will give you the general
idea, and a full canvass of the
docket would leave me no room
for my say, which is as follows;
The Organizers editorial says all
the persons and companies cited
in its list are members or hangers
on of the upper class" and that
those who bark at organized labor
can't seem to e or hear real ex-
amples of racketeering and thiev-
cry by such. The answe. is, of
course, that crooks are constantly
being exposed and punished in all
walks of life, but that only in the
labor racket is the denunciation
and legal prosecution of a knave
resented as an attack on a whole
class of innocent people.
Proportion Higher
The reason is that the proper
ton of crooks is higher in union
leadership than in any other oc-
cupation, thanks to many years of
immunity from prosecution by pub
lie authorities. Now, seeing their
racket challenged at last, the la
Dor takers are greatly alarmed,
and by meal of union weeklies
which they publish to protect their
powers r trying to convince their
rank and file victims that punish
ment of those who persecute them
will somehow harm them. Lest it
seem to be a careless, unconsidered
statement, I repeat that in union
leadership the proportion of crooks
is higher than in any other occupa-
ton.
Possibly the theft of $50, 900 is
"a minor pecadillo'' in Wall street,
but it is also a mine peccadillo
in union management, too. l have
called attention to a CHICAGO judge.
a shameless labor caker, whose
law firm Tor a dozen years u
about $50, 600 a year from the
members of a janitors' union, to
George Scalise, the thief and fifth
column of the Capone-Nitto mob in
labor organization, and to a rich
and powerful unioneer who graft
ed 500, 900 from the pension fund
OF his members but still holds his
job.
Regarding the newspaper which
is said to have been convicted of
restraint of trade I have no in
formation, but I do observe that
the newspaper industry s O
made this an occasion to rail
against the government as labor
takers rail against those who ex-
pose union crooks. And as to the
nitrate man, as yet merely indict-
ed but not convicted, I would point
that scores of union racketeers
have been indicted on the same
charge and that the labor racket
has been yelling bloody murder
against these indictments and
thurman Arnold of the departures
of justice.
The insurance broker was
promptly arrested on the rape
case, with no protest from his col
leagues nor any appeal to the
pollcyholders to resent a foul con-
Splracy against their interests and
observation that the rape of
young girls is a common sport of
the rich comes aWkardly from
men who welcome to the company