The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12
By WEsTBROOK PEGLER

| NEW YORK-The gimmick in the Presi.
dents executive order on manpower appoint
ing Paul V. McNutt dictator over the living
of the whole American people is contained in
Paragraph 5.
According to the method of both the Com
munists and the Nazis, the effect is achieved
by cunning use cf the negative.
The order does not say in positive language
that McNutt shall have the power to compel
all workers, women well men, to join
unions even though they are forced to accept
work in the war industries. What it does say
is that all hiring for any work which McNutt
deems to be essential shall be done through
the U. S. Employment Service cor in accord
ance with such arrangements as McNutt may
approve. So if McNutt decides that you must
leave your job with an insurance company
or a department store, for example, and, be-
ing thus thrown out of work, you are forced
to take a war job, McNutt can order that
the hiring be done through the union claiming
jurisdiction having Wagner act contract
with the plant in question.
That would be an arrangement which he
could approve and, in fact, such ARRANGE
ments'' have controlled employment at many
projects employing countless American citi-
ZenS.
Nothing in the executive order even init
mates that McNutt shall have the power to
regulate the dues and fees of the unions
so what it comes down to is that he can
drive you into war job by deciding that
your present job is nonessential and then, by
approving an arrangement with union
can make you pay $50, $10O or $3.50 for initia-
ton and other fess and dues for which the
union is accountable to nobody and force you
to live up to union rules of personal conduct
which deprive you of your basic rights as
free man or woman.
Driven into the union in this manner, you
may be forbidden to appeal to the public
courts for relief from persecution by the
union boss. Daniel Tobin, the president of
the Teamsters union, expressed the attitude
of the professional unioneer on this when he
said in his official publication few years
ago that the worker who brought his union
into court was lower than scab. You may
also be forbidden to report loafing or slow
down tactics or destruction or waste of ma
terials to the management of the plant. Joe
Paoway, the general counsel of the AFL and
of Tobin's union, and in recent years the
mouthpiece of some of the filthiest rascals in
the whole union racket, affirmed this recent
ly in a court trial in Tampa.
An employee of a shipyard, veteran of
World War I, testified that he was fired be-
cause he reported ''unethicaP' conduct by a
superior employee and couldn't get his job
back, although the company wanted him back
because the union blackballed him. Padway
said this made the war veteran stooge and
that unions didn't like stooges.
You may be forbidden to criticize the boss
of the union, which is denial OF your right
Of free speech and you may be forbidden to
attend an Indignation meeting of fellow mem
bers to try to depose crooks or Communists
in power, which is a denial OF your right
of assembly.
Several members of the Conlmunistic Trans
port union in New York were 'tried'' re-
they were caught by a rading party, includ-
ing agents of Marshall Field, the rich angel
and protege of the New Deal Party.
The gimmick in Paragraph also says,
again in negative language, that your en-
ployer must fire you if McNutt thinks your
services are more urgently needed in some
other job.
| That is an all-purpose gimmiek, capable OF
destroying all private, nonwar industry IN the
United States, reducing a mlddle-class sal
aried worker to day wages and moving MN
or her away from home. For it says McNutt
may do this if he thinks you would be OF
more service in some other "area'' 1t doesn't
say that if you have worked yourself up to
81. 500 a wear as an office executive in a
nonwar business and are transferred to physi-
cal labor somewhere else, McNutt must get
you $500 year so that you can keep UP
your insurance and the mortgage and the sup
port of your aged parents. 1t says nothing
about that part OF 1t.
Naturally, McNutt will require the help of
many subadministrators. He can't make all
the decisions in Individual cases, himself And
a bad administrator who is a crook or a
Communist or business rival of your boss