Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-12-24


boys across Clayton w.
the racks Fountain
have been tuning up their ton
sils for an overture to the ex-
tension of business bossism in
the postwar world.
Mr.. Crawford popped off the
other day with a crack that
shocked even his dearest editor
ial pals on the payrolls of the
big dailies. He said that the
-Four Freedoms" of the Atlantic
Charter really meant "freedofn
from freedom" He went on to
explain that, in his opinion, only
a guy locked up in the clink
could possibly achieve the -Four
Freedoms"
For this crack, the NAM big
shot was called to task by a
powerful Detroit daily paper
which is always fetching and
carrying for the Upper Crust.
WAY OFF BASE
The lug was way off base;
but that's about how things
stand politically these days in
America. Congress is off base.
Most of the administrative boys
in the government agencies are
in somebody's hair. The folks
on our side of the tracks are
grumbling and gripping no end,
but not doing much of anything
about their troubles.
And, in the meantime, the at
titude of cockiness displayed by
the NAM-Crawford crowd is
getting to be genuine chip-on-
the-shoulder act,
Corporate chins are sticking
out so far that they project
around the corner, like Mr.. Hoo
ver's prosperity, Kentucky went
Republican in recent election,
and Wall Street went on three
day bat. Somebody suggested
killing a fatted calf-but they
didn't have enough ration points.
So they're speeding up the
job of killing the Roosevelt re-
gime instead.
FRATERNAL ALARM
Business is really on binge.
With the help of politicians who
are all out to win the war
against social security and time
and-a-half-in spite of the in
reference of that European nui-
sance, A. Hitler-the fat boys
upstairs are chopping away like
Indians full of fire water.
They are swinging tn eiT
hatchets so recklessly that one
chop from their own ranks has
felt it necessary to sound an
alarm within his fraternal circle.
Charles E. Wilson, who left
big electric firm to become Don
aid Nelson's right-hand man in
the War Production Board,
warned against swing to ex-
treme right-wing reaction in a
recent speech.
Raymond Clapper, daily col
umnist, was bewildered by Will
sons warning. Clapper agreed
with the tone of Wilson's speech,
but he doubted if American busi-
ness would be 20 stupid as to do
what Wilson was warning
against.
HISTORIC EXAMPLES
Has Clapper forgotten his his
tory? Doesn't he know that the
big business boys in Germany
laid the necessary cash on the
line to make Hitler and Naziism
possible in Europe? Doesn't ne
know that Mussolini and Franco
fed at the money bags of busi-
ness?
Or, for an example closer to
home, has Clapper. forgotten
how spies, thugs, tear gas and
pick handles were used by busi-
ness to discourage organization
of labor unions?
AS a matter of fact, the ethics
Of business are about on a par
with those once practiced by Al
Capone. The only difference is
that Al paid / his boys good
dough. Business pays as little as
It can get away with.
Kings and billionaire capital
sts, dictators and big-time rack
eteers-they are all about of the
same type. They do not earn
heir income; they grab it, And
# they have to hire a Hitler to
protect their ill-gotten gains,
they'll do it.
This is the basic political
reed of the Upper Crust.