Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-05-21

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Edward Duck Pegler, as far
as | have ever noticed.
Words fail me, Westbrook,
but | do want you to know just
how / feel about you. Perhaps
some of those letters you once
quoted in your column best de-
scribe the feelings of lots of
people - I'm referring to the
nasty ones whose authors minced
no words in expressing their ut
ter contempt for you.
So much for this-I'm begin
ming to sound like Westbrook
Pegler, and that would never do!
But let me ask you how you liked
the article Walter Winchell
once wrote, in which he lovingly
referred to you as "Mr. Pigler"?
Maybe he had something there.
stated that you never had a good
word to say for anyone. He
(The part | liked was where he
really hit the nail on the head,
didn't he, Westbrook?)
SOME QUESTIONS
There's one or two more things
I'd like to ask you, if you don't
mind: First of all, how much
money did you make last year
for writing that unbiased" col
umn of yours, including any "ex-
ira remuneration or gifts receiv-
ed from those who are keeping
you?
Second. if you are so much In
terested in the working stiff,
why have you never publicized
the gains of the industrial work
ers during recent years, which
gains include pay increases to-
taling billions of dollars? | pre-
sumo you are aware of the &C
complishments of the CIO, since
you seem to be so well posted on
data of derogatory nature.
And here's something / can't
quite understand: If the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor's goons,
thugs and gangsters are so nu-
merous as you have been telling
the gullible public, why in the
name of common sense hasn't
one of them succeeded in entic-
ing you into personally auto
graphing a bomb? Only morali-
ty prevents many an anti-Pegler-
ite from dishing out a bit of
physical violence, | imagine!
MORALITY
And speaking of morality,
Westbrook, they tell me you at
tended Jesuit college. You must
have gone in one door and out
the other. for all the good it's
done you. Perhaps you disagreed
with their teachings, or perhaps
you couldn't buy a $4,000 man
sion teaching Jesuit philosophy!
Still and all, you're quite
clever guy. If anyone doubts it,
they need only to ask you. Real
ly, Westbrook, you truly are,
as you have yourself said, in
imitable. But maybe it's because
other people have a conscience
and consequently don't care to
make living by indulging in
one big orgy of evasive, double
meaning, and at least partially
untrue statements.
BLANKET CHARGES
certainly don't hold the
American Federation of Labor to
be above reproach, but on the
other hand, ther> are some unions
of various denominations, includ-
ing the aforementioned Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, which
are not composed of thieves,
shakedown artists, parasites, and
whatever else you have called
them.
Furthermore, we of the UAW-
CI0 do not in the least sppreci-
ate the blanket charge which
says in effect, This is typical
of labor unions and they are all
alike" If your true purpose
were the liberation of those
whose organizations are ridden
with tyrannical and parasitic
leadership, we would be right in
there pitching with you. But
since your anti-everything atti-
tude condemns all of us, and
since you insist on dwelling sole
ly upon the sordid side of every
thing, the most sordid subject
imaginable i'm our opinion is none