Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-08
Good Citizens
Not Always
New Dealers
Americans Like Russia
Only as q War Ally
By wESTBROOK PEGLER

By WESTBROOK PEGLER
E>OR those Americans who OBJ !
= ject to the internal politics .
Of our national government, it
becomes necessary, In time of
war, to draw a distinction be-
tween the nation. to which all
good citizens are absolutely
loyal, and certain New Deal
policies.
The situation Is similar to that
in which Americans distinguish
between Russia as a military
ally and Russia's form of gov
eminent.
In appreciation of the inciden-
tai benefit which we derive from
the Russians great fight In de-
Tense of their own country and
their own lives. Americans ap-
prove fully military cooperation
with Russia.
AT home, however, we find
that the Communist Party.
which the New Deal attorney
general has now vigorously
denounced as a Russian reyolu-
tionary age y, continues
aggressively the anti-American
political meddling which has
been its reason for existence
here for the last 20 years and,
naturally, this is resented.
The fact that many of the
Communists are native Amer
leans and that many of them
are masqueraders pretending to
be kindly altruists makes no diff
| ference.
DUSSIA would not permit us
IL to employ native Russians
10 advance a Republican oppo-
sition TO the Soviet dictatorship
and masqueraders would be
judged by the company they
kept and treated accordingly.
Moreover. we just wouldn't do
that. We are too well hammered,
/ suppose you might say.
Now as 10 the distinction be-
tween loyalty to the United
States and opposition to the
internal politics of the party in
power. the case is roughly paral-
lei.
If the New Deal government
at home would abandon domes-
tic politics, our internal unity
would be almost perfect.
1 refer particularly TO the
New Deal party's cultivation OF
a great conspiracy against the
freedom of Americans at home
under a pretense OF sympathy
for labor.
Through a combination Of laws
and Supreme Court decisions
having the effect OF laws, the
party in power has undertaken
to drive into the unions millions
of American workers who prefer
not 10 join.
Although the Wagner Act
stated in its declaration Of pur-
pose that it was intended 10
permit workers 10 bargain coll
lectively through agents of their
own choice, In actual fact X
compels unwilling workers to
accept agents forced upon them
by agencies of the New Deal
party.
DEING forced to join, they are
- also forced TO pay initiation
fees. amounting in some cases
10 $1,000, and TO pay the taxes
into the union treasures which
collect more than one thousand
million dollars year.
We know that the New Deal
party does dip into these union
treasures because John l..
Lewis, who gave the New Deal
a great lump of money belonging
TO the coal miners, without con-
sulting them about II, blew the
whistle when he fell out with
President Roosevelt.
And we know that the unions
are party agencies because
Francis Biddle, the attorney
general, in a boastful moment,
frankly said that the New Deal
government was as a party tied
up with the labor movement.
We know also that the Presi-
dent and the party. are deter
mined to preserve the immunity
of these vast union funds from
taxation or mere accounting or
public inquiry because his politi-
cal agents have ordered the
Senate to smother bills passed
by the House which would have
provided for public accounting,
although not for public taxation.
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