Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
Carpenters
Union Draws
PegIer Fire
RawIins, Wyo., Worker
Tells Conditions 4
By WEsTBROOK PEGLER

a letter from a man III raw
Inns, Wyo., says project Is
starting there, financed by the
public money. being in large
part the taxes of all the people
of the United States.
"The carpenters unien," he
says, "are right there for theirs.
You will notice that they arc
giving only a receipt for working
permits. The poor suckers who
pay this are not taken into tho
union at all"
He enclosed a little sheaf OF
blanks each bearing. on the stub,
the frank words:
working permit"
The rest of the print reads:
United Brotherhood OF Car
penters and Joiners, Rawlins,
Union No. 659," and again the
words working permit"
This IL 10 certify that Mr..
Is hereby permitted by
Local Union No. $50 10 be en-
pioyed a. a carpenter by -.
That he agrees to forfeit $40 o
week of his salary for five
weeks, payable 10 the financial
secretary"
I HAVE a lot of receipts like
L that from many parts OF the
country.
This has been going on for
years and. with Henry Morgen-
THAI warning US all that taxes
are going 10 be higher and
higher, and with most OF US per-
fectly willing 10 pay them for
the war. the unions are siphon-
ing off hundreds of millions o.,
dollars through a direct pipeli
10 the treasury. =
They get their rakeoff from
Henry's sales of bonds, too.
Fifty dollars for a permit 10
serve the nation as a carpenter.
You pay or lend your money
10 Henry.
Henry pays IL 10 The contrac-
tor.
The contractor pays il to the
worker and il is then grabbed
by subdivision of the New
Deal Party
Here is another letter
This one is from man in Los
Angeles.
He says:
Il am n service station oper-
ator, still doing pretty good. but
with gas rationing good bet.
with these draft boards telling
married men with families to
get into war work and all tho
ads In the papers crying for
men. I thought I would look
around
II am not particularly both
cred about the draft A. I'm
married, have a baby. also the
asthma.
$50 ! say why not take one Of
these free courses the govern
ment IL giving In shipfitting and
get one of those good paying
jobs:
81 GO to school at night seven
weeks and learn very little
about shipfitting. as II turned
out to be an experience telling
class.
AS only the instructor knew
anything about shipfitting, that
subject was discussed very little.
after seven weeks j am grad
uated and received a call right
away to 70 to the United states
Employment Service where II
man wants to know IL YOU ma
81. which ] have.
so he stamps INV card and
sends me. not 10 the shipyard,
but to the Boilermakcrs' Union
where ! I'm supposed 10 pay the
81. as a down payment on the
right 10 work on n ship built to
help win the war.
"Plastered all over the walls
Of this hall were signs stating
that II YOU didn't finish paying
the Initiation fee plus dues the
union would keep your 81 and
YOU would be removed from the
job.
IL decided that II the rest OF
the fee was more important than
working on the ships maybe all
this talk about needing men 40
bad was lie, 40 told them 10
keep the jobs and / would keep
my service station.
ION union jobs the starting
pay II 95 cents an hour and ON
navy jobs the pay IL a little less.
"You don't have to Join the
union on navy jobs, so they de-
duct the difference Of the dues,
etc, from your paw"
HERE is another letter. from n
IL young fellow from a broken
home, who couldn't finish coll
lege, batted around the hard
way during the depression work.
ing in a printing plant and
paper factory. and as a sailor
and a salesman. and. a counlc of
years ago. enlisted in the army.
"A letter from mother. re-
ceived today, mentions that she
had seen you recently and served
TO remind me that I hadn't even
dropped you note To let YOU
know what I am doing.
Snow it's too late.
"In the theater Of operation,1n