Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-27
Unions, Reds
Linked With
Paper Plots Z.
Advertisers Inundated,
PegIer Declares
By WESTBROOK PEGLER

report on the campaign Of
Communists and racketeers in
the union movement, and their
stooges and dupes, to compel
the suppression of facts revealed.
and opinions expressed on the
basis of those facts, in these dis
patches.
Material at hand TO date
shows that this demand, backed
in some cases by threats against
individual papers, has been ex-
pressed by resolution or by
editorial in union publications
in New York. Louisville, Denver.
Bridgeport. Youngstown, Akron,
Waterbury and Salt Lake City.
In New York the local chapter
of the newspaper guild, in whose
affairs there has been Com
munist influence, asked the
chief of staff TO see TO il that
soldiers overseas be not allowed
TO read in the Stars and Stripes
the extent of the Communist in
fluence and racketeering in
unions.
Such information was not At
reading for American soldiers
who, naturally. might be dis
Quoted about this state of az
fairs on the home front.
There was no suggestion that
as more satisfactory solution
the Communists be deprived OF
their influential position or
that thievery by extortion and
by other means be'stopped.
THE Trade Union Record OF
Il New York, which purports
TO speak for unions of the AFL
in the metropolitan area. echoed
this demand. as, of course, did
the daily organ OF the Commu-
mist Party, which had damned
Roosevelt as a tool OF British
imperialism until Hitler attacked
and thereafter. until Pearl Har-
Dor, reviled him because he did
not put the United States into
-the-War- on-RusSia,S Side-at-
once.
The Union Cat of New York.
published by Caterpillar Local
los Of the Go, next reported
that the Go council of New
York was demanding congress
Sional investigation of these dis
patches and their suppression by
the press.
The Cat said the council was
circulating petitions 10 this ef-
feet throughout the country, one
count in the indictment being
that these articles had called for
radio attacks on unions by
"scab-minded reactionaricS."
This referred 10 proposal
that equal radio time be allowed
10 genuine pro-labor debates 10
refute the propaganda OF the
professional unioneers, particu-
larry as concerns communism,
graft and COON terrorism.
The anti Americans and apollo
giSts for anti-labor crooks have
things all their own way on the
air and their ballyhoo goes with
out challenge.
TN FORT WAYNE, the Go
Il council addressed a circular
letter 10 firms advertising in the
News-Sentinel Asking the threat
ening question:
Does your financial support
OF the News-Sentinel through
your advertising indicate that
you support its anti-labor and
anti-war policies?"
The unions OF the council. by
the exercise Of the terroristic
discipline adopted from the Com
munist Party, might try to
prevent their members from
patronizing such merchants and
thus suppress the paper.
The News-Sentinel, inciden-
tally. had exposed. without
denial. the activity OF Parke
Kreachbaum. the councils secre-
tary, in a CommuniSt-front, anti
war organization which evapo-
rated when Hitler struck Russia.
Communist groups have often
denounced real or fictitious ex-
amples OF control of the editorial
policies of daily papers by box
office pressure exerted by adj
vertisers, but in this case the
Go council demands such pres
sure in the interests Of Com
munists and racketeers.
The Communist Party OF
Louisville. KY, is very direct.
II just calls on the Louisville
Times TO throw out the copy.
The Denver protest, published
in the Colorado Labor Advocate,
is amusing because il was init
ated by the Building Service
Employees Union, the old Sea-
lise underworld racket. which
was exposed in these pieces.
These dispatches and Tom
Dewey took the crooks off the
neckS of the rank and file, and
now the Denver local calls for
a statewide boycott of the
Rocky Mountain News for con-
tinuing to print similar exposes.
THE terbury American
Il printed a letter from some
one in New Haven. calling him
self William b. Calm. state or
ganizer." and purporting TO
speak for literally thousands"