The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-06-05
Labor Calls Pegler Enemy of i. S.

ming Of the war, Pegler's writings are
certainly no contribution in this d.
ERECTION.
Virtually any one of his columns
Is enough to prove his venom against
labor. His unceasing desire to split
and destroy what unity has been
achieved in the labor movement; his
attempt to set class against class in
these times when the common good
demands maximum national unity; his
lattempt to poison our minds against
Tour Allies both at home and abroad /;
his lack of rudimentary respect even
for the President of the U. S. and his
wife;-are all well known to readers
of your newspaper"
The boycott against papers printing
Pegler in Colorado was begun by
Local los Building Service Employees
Init. Union which celebrated Free
Press Week by passing ar resolution
to boycott the Rocky Mountain News.
IN FACT has received from Mer-
lin Snellen, recording secretary, West
ern Mechanics Local Union 700, CLIO,
Los Angeles, the text of a resolution
unanimously adopted and sent to Pres
ident Roosevelt:
Whereas, certain publications such
as Coughlin's Social Justice, McCor-
mick's Chicago Tribune, Patterson's
NYD News, and Hearst's scurrilous
sheets, have editoriaIly or through
some strengthening like Westbrook
Pegler, brazenly mouthed their Fas-
cist doctrines in the faces of the peo-
pie Of this nation who are giving
their lives that these very doctrines
may not enslave them, and
Whereas, we are a nation at war
against an implacable foe whose sue
cesses SO far have been insured by a
willy Fifth Column spreading dissen-
sion and confusion, and
Whereas the only answer to the
divide-and-rule game of the Hitlers is
to stand undivided, with one mind,
one method and one goal; to stand
united and
Whereas, the purpose of the Jew
batting of the Coughlins, the labor
batting of the Hearsts and the Peg
lers, and the red-baiting of the Nc
Cormicks and Pattersons is to create
division, to foster disunity, to under
| mine and destroy the noble desire of
the American people to build united
strength that will crush the Axis war
lords, therefore be it
Resolved, that we urge the gov
| eminent of the U. S. to declare the
scribblings of these publications trea-
sonous, and indict their publishers as
traitors to their nation; to forthwith
deny said publications the use of the
U. S. mails and clear them from the
public newsstands; to try the spon-
sors of all such publications in the
courts of the land, and if found guilty,
incarcerate them in a place where
they will be of no value to the enc
mics, and be it further
Resolved, that copies of this res
olution be sent to President Roosevelt,
to the public press, and to the Inter-.
national Union of Mine, Mill and
Shelter Workers"
(Signed and sealed, May ~
suppresses Negro Challenge
The National Association for Adj
vancement of Colored People is COM
posed of leading white and negro
Americans and is recognized as a
spokesman for the 100000 negroes
in the us. Nevertheless, Towards
NY World-Telegram, chief Scripps-
Howard paper, refused to print the
NAACP's protest following several
anti-negro columns by Pegler. The
NAACP sent In Fact the following
statements:
I'm his column +. Pegler told of
his examination of the Pittsburgh
Courier and the Chicago Defender,
and strongly intimated that these and
other negro papers were in the same
class with Father Coughlin's Social
Justice. !. The NAACP letter to the
NY W.T. declared: we challenge Mr..
Pegler, or anyone else, to find a single
disloyal or subversive line in any me-
gro paper We challenge him to find
any slurs upon President Roosevelt.
We challenge him to find any asser-
ton that the Japanese were provoked
into this war. We challenge him to
find praise of Hitler or the Axis pow
ers. We challenge him to find any
suggestion that this is not our
war. The negro press has urged
loyal support for the war effort. /. 1.
The negro press resents the shooting
and beating of negro soldiers in uni
form; it complains justly and logical
1y against the restricted quota of ne
gro flying cadets it resents
lynching. Does Pegler say that
these protests are subversive?"
On May the NAACP announced it
had received refusal from the Peg
Ter paper to print its protest and
challenge. NAACP said: "Mr. Pegler
would do well to examine his own
labor batting record"
PegIer Fears Unions and FDR
More Than Hitler
Every native American Fascist or
ganization has reprinted with the
permission of Mr.. Pegler, his boss
Roy Howard and his editor Lee
Wood numerous labor-baiting col |
umns and has distributed them whole |
sale. Pegler himself is syndicated to |
some 120 papers and reaches just |
about 100000 readers daily. Accord
ing to Mr.. Ickes' 1899 statement, Peg
Ter earned $46,253 a year.
The National Association of Manu- |
facturers got out pamphlet entitled |
whats Going On In America" and |
cant n RI all anti-lo bor oroo n i1o tiopo