Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-19
Picket Lines
Make Tobin,
Pegler Mad
CoIumnist Finds Himself
in New Company
BY wESTBROOK PEGLER
600 THROUGH those picket

What strike-breaking rat of a
labor-baiting union-buster wrote
that?
Well, chum. dust off a spot on
the floor and go into your swoon
because that is the title of the
leading editorial of the June
issue issue of the monthly jour-
nal Of the Transfers Union and
unofficial command to the MEM
bership from Brother Dan Tobin.
the president. who is also a
member of the executive coun-
Gil or cabinet Of the AFL.
eco through those picket
lines" says he.
Brother Tobin has just ac-
knowledged, after all these
years, that many racket has
been put over on the American
people by this device.
Brother Tobin's editeysal re-
veals no interest in the peoples
case, of course.
He was just wrought up be-
cause his teamSters had been
used by other unioneers.
I listen 10 Brother Tobin:
II "No matter what I say
through the columns OF this
Journal" he writes. "or what I
say I'm private letters TO local
unions, 1 still find q number Of
local unions that refuse TO obey
the orders they receive from the
international office relative to
sympathetic strikes and the
crossing Of picket lines.
Sometimes we are inclined to
think that many Of our MEM
hers haven't the backbone r.
cross what we recognize
Illegal picket lines. ~
Eyes. know that many Of
our unions have n clause I'm their
contracts which reads that II
shall not be considered vio-
IatiOn Of the agreement TO refuse
to deliver goods where there IL
labor trouble.
let me say now, unless the
International union orders you
not to go through picket lines.
that clause must be set aside
during the period Of the war.
IF you can't comply with our
international orders, which are
founded on necessity and on
orders from our government,
then the best thing to do Is 10
notify the international union.
Then We will protect our
selves. We know how.
"Some members have 10 have
n bombsheIl dropped on the
office Of some local union I'm
order TO make them understand
that our country Is In danger
Even In nondefense indus
tries. every means within your
power should he used before you
stop work.
HS A CERTAIN city In the
Middle West within the last
I few months, one Of the organiza-
lions affiliated with the ALL
threw n picket line In front Of q
business establishment.
"They asked the tca.usters
not 10 deliver anything to that
building. An investigation proved
that, ont Of % persons inside the
plant, only four OF them were
In the union and they had been
In the union only q couple Of
weeks.
THE place had never been or
ganized and the local business
agent requested the teamsters
to refuse 10 haul any kind
product into that building. ~
'In other words. asked us To
violate at least four contracts
with four different sets Of en-
ployers whose employees. our
members, were going into that
building.
IAN organization that never
consulted us before they threwS
the picket line around the place.
an organization that didn't have
but four persons In the building,
wanted us 10 destroy four exist
ing contracts and throw out Of
work Is or 90 of our people.
"OuR organizer notified the
~ general president and the
general president ordered him
TO order his members to 60
through that picket line.
Business agents who are not
strong enough to tell their mem
hers to go through and make
them 20 through should get out
Of the union Members who
refuse to obey orders should be
suspended or expelled"
Brother Dan'l took many OF
these thoughts right out of these
dispatches.
Copyrighted by United Features synd.. Inc.
Humility that low, sweet root