Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-25
On The Beam
By CLAYTON W. FOUNTAIN

stines has taken the govern
mental bit in it's teeth and is
galloping backward at a mad
pace down the road to the good
old days" of Harding and
Hoover.
There is a CLEAN in the eyes
Of these legalistic galoots which
hints of brass knuckles, lead pipe
and firing squads.
In direct disregard of the
mandates of the Constitution of
the United States, these congress
sional clucks are wrecking the
principles of democracy with
legislative bombs. They are
blasting the rights of the people
to bits with a backstairs blitz-
krieg against the freedom Of
man.
While the ordinary citizens are
laboring for liberty, and the boys
on the battlefronts are fighting
for freedom, with election day
more than a year away, the
Washington goons are ganging
up on every decent aim for
which the war is being fought.
THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY
The Constitution was ordained
and established, as stated in its
preamble, to secure, among other
things, "the blessings of liberty
to ourselves and to posterity."
We who live in-and love-
America today are that poster
ity" to whom the Founding
Fathers passed on the hardwon
heritage of liberty.
But the stinkiest of the politi-
clans of our time are busily
blackjacking liberty instead of
protecting it for the people who
selected them.
Duplicity and double-talk seem
to be the major tools of the
legislative tricksters who are
waging their private war against
freedom on the home front. To
them the union shop is far more
horrible than Herr Hitler's hate
full assault on the fortresses of
freedom. They would rather
scuttle the Wagner Act than
open a second front against the
Nazis. Prison cells for labor
leaders are their reply to Goeb-
bells glorious Nazi new order.
COCKEYED
CONTRADICTIONS
The two-faced twist of the
anti-strike bill would BE- highly
amusing if it were not so tragic.
If any word of this asinine ac-
tion has trickled through to their
eager ears, the long-suffering
workers in Nazified Europe must
surely be puzzled by the cock
eyed contradictions of the Con-
nally-Smith legislative contrap-
ton. 1t must appear to these
workers that America is nuts
to be preaching against Fascism
and practicing its foul tactics at
the same time.
European labor has long been
exhorted to revolt against the
rule of the Nazis. Every strike,
every stoppage of production,
every act of sabotage in nations
held by Nazi gangsters has been
applauded by the people of the
United Nations. But the work.
ers of Europe must surely ques-
tion the sincerity of propa-
gandists who extol the right to
strike across the ocean, while
labor's rights on this side of the
pond are chopped to splinters by
political hatchetmen.
NO ARGUMENT FOR
STRIKES
This piece is no argument for
walk-outs in wartime. 1t is
merely an observation of the fact
that you cannot fight Fascism
with one hand and, at the same
time, feed it with the other.
The authors and sponsors of
the Connally-Smith masterstroke
of political persecution do not
want to fight Fascism as such.
They fear and hate the power
which liberty places in the hands
of the common folks of America;
and they are using the excite
ment of wartime emotions to
kick democracy below the belt.
The war grew out of just such
political piracy as is so brazenly
manifest in the provisions of the
Connally-Smith bill. Mussolini,
Hitler, France, & Company first
enslaved labor before they foist-
ed their relationships on all the
people under them. The labor
hating charlatans now capti-
waiting Congress with their corny
politics are brewing a dose of
Fascist tonic for America.
Unless the common people
soon grab the reins and pull the
runaway politicians up short, the