The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-31
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
NEW YORK.-In analyzing our own brand
of fascisn introduced and fostered by the
new deal government, must keep in mind
always that in each country which has fallen
under fascism there were slight variations of
method although in every case the objective
has been the same, the seduction and creeping
subjugaton of the people. Thus, certain fas-
cistic moves which have been made by the
unions in the United States, although they
plainly have that objective, may have no exact
parallel in any move that was made in either
Italy or Germany. And thus, the authors of
these stealthy attacks on the freedom of Amer
leans and the integrity of the American sys-
tenn may plausbly deny that they are fascists
and defy anyone to cite any precedent from
the books of Mussolini or Hitler.
Let me, therefore, discuss familiar process
in our trend toward fascism or, if you pre-
fer, toward communism, there being no es-
sential difference between the two.
I have beside me a circular "approved for
posting the bulletin boards of the Fleet
wings Airplane factory in Bristol, Pa, by
local 100, of the United Automobile, Aircraft
and Agricultural Implement Workers of Amer
lea, CO.
"Acting under instructions from the inter-
national union,'' the circular says, II have
been ordered to collect the sum of 81, an
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member of our local union. This must be paid
by July 10, 1o43. Your steward will collect
the money and give you receipt for same.
The purpose of this assessment is for or
ganization needs for the UAW-CIO. The local
receives none of this money as all is for
warded to the international union"
| Now this, we know is the same union that
carried on a violent lawless insurrection in
Michigan by the tolerance Of Justice Frank
Murphy of the United States Supreme Court
when he was governor default of duty for
which he was repudiated by the majority of
the people of the state. 1t is also the same
which, later, made another insurrection, this
| time against the interests, authority and safe
ty of the United States OF America and in
the interests of Soviet Russia, at the North
| American Aviation plant in California.
Several leaders of that California insurrec
| ton which was denounced the work of
alien forces hostile to this country by Presi-
dent Roosevelt, himself, were temporarily dis
missed by the union as political gesture
but, since Pearl Harbor. have been restored
to their old positions of power.
| But examine the process here.
| You George Spelvin, American, with son
in the South Pacific are compelled to join this
union an imposition on your patriotism
| and your love of your son. You want to make
airplanes, but yu can't do it unless you join
this union under these bosses. You hate the
| outfit because you have followed its history
and you resent coercion and trickery but your
new deal government, moving lnexorably to-
ward the subjugation of all Americans but
starting with the workers, has sold you out
to men whom the President in a moment
when it suited his purpose to be candid de-
nounced as enemies of your country
| That, however, was only the first step. Now
you are taxed a dollar today. another dollar
next month, and days pay later on, accord
ing to the plans and the political judgement
of the union bosses, to create fund to enable
them to extend their fascism to other Amer
| lean citizens like you in other communities
The money will be spen' to hire and transport
thugs to terrify these aers into bondage, to
| finance fake and corrupt ballotlngs, as IN the
| Chalmers case and to flood congressional
districts with cash to defeat pro-Amerlcan and
ant-fascist candidates who might pass laws
fascism.
| You can't refuse to contribute to this fund
to tighten the bonds on your own wrists. If
you do refuse, you go under the closed shop
or union maintenance shop. You have your
choice. If you quit, that kid in the SOLONlONo
won't have your contribution to the aircraft
production. If you stay on, paying as you
are ordered to by your masters, you are
helping to destroy at home those freedoms
which the kid is fighting to extend the
little brown brothers of the Orient You are
forging chains to be snapped on him the day
| he comes back it he ever does.
| Now a covering letter addressed to dear
fellow member says the union is not de
mandng this money, in flat contradiction of
the notice on the board which says the flnan-
| cial secretary of the local has been ordered
to collect it, and that 1t must be pald." /"
That is their usual way OF giving you to
believe you are free man. just as an animal
| in zoo thinks he is free until he tries to
! 90 past the bars which confine him.
But in the deepest cynicisn1, the covering
letter tells you that because you have re-
ceived a few paltry raises in inflated money
with which to buy little luxuries, you Will OF
course be glad to know that your money Will
be used to bribe congressman to vote away
your freedom and vote you into the new deal s
variation of fascism through corruption OF the
American 1aW-making body.
'Sad it may seem," says the covering
letter, Gin this great democracy OF ours, con-
gressmen must be creased, that Is wlned,
dined and bribed for their votes, and they
can be, very effectively. This greasng process
costs a tidy sum with every session OF Con-
gress. This is what your dollar goes Tor -
You will find no exact parallel OF all this
in the book of Mussolini or Hitler. 1t is dis
tinctive peculiarity of new deal fasclsm But
it is fascism, nevertheless, although the real
fascists in your government and IN the union
movement will damn you as labor-baltlng
fascist for farins to say 90
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