The Wilmington morning star., 1943-06-17
Rv WESTBROOK PEGLER

BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
CHICAGO.-Possibly someone will say that
I exaggerated or drew on my imagination in
writing of the dangerous alliance between the
present national government of the United
States and the criminal underworld of the
union rackets Is this only my Interpretation
or can I prove it?
| can prove up.
Let us take the case of Joseph Newell
known as Buck Newell, of St. Louis, a gang
ster who was killed in cheap family shoot
ing on June q The homicide case needn't
thug, who abused his own family among others.
Newell the boss of local 513 of the
operating engineers, a ST. Louis racket and
a subsidiary of the national racket whose pres
ident is William E. Maloney, dese-dose- and
dem gorilla with home and headquarters IN
Chicago, and an admired friend of William
Green. Maloney is dominant figure in the
unspeakably corrupt AFL organization in Chi
cago which is political, moral and financial
subsidiary of Ed Kelly's Chicago chapter of
the party Of humanity with which Harold
Ickes and Harry Hopkins bargained
nestly in 1910 to put over President Roose-
velts nomination for the third term.
| After Buck NeWells death it was disclosed
that he had been indicted on three counts by
the local grand jury at Cape Girardeau, Mo-,
where recently, work was stopped for five
days on the new oil pipeline that Mr. Ickes
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| taxes and mine, to relieve the shortage of
fuel oil and gasoline On the eastern seaboard.
| Many lives are at stake on this project be-
cause millions of Americans in the east have
just lived through one very bad winter with
insufficient fuel and are facing a similar
shortage next winter.
| This, incidentally is not the first time
union racket has tied up work on this vital
| pipeline There was similar stoppage last
spring, occasioned by no disputes between
employer and employee but only by the de-
termination of a racket licensed by President
Roosevelts government to collect dues from
countryside workers who earning few
dollars on public project.
| One OF the indictments against Newell we
can throw out as being Of no interest to US
It charged him with carryin'-on with girl
friend when he took to the road to beat up
few working stiffs. But the other two in
dictments charged him, first, with smashing
up the dining room of hotel in Cape Grar-
deau and throwing crockery all over the place.
| in assaulting q couple Of pipeline workers
with intent to extend to them the benefits of
the new deals benevolent labor policy, and
| second, with starting riot in the railroad
yards at limo, Mo-, with the same intent
In each case he had a mob Of st. Louis
underworld buns with him. Work on the
pipeline stopped for five days.
This was the third project that this
protege of the new deal party had tied up
within two years under the license and priv
ilege extended to him by the national gov
ernment. But it will be observed that it was
not the federal Department of Justice which
indicted him for obstructing the pipeline The
only trouble the federal Department of JUS
tice ever gave him was a $500 fine back in
1897 for conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment. This conviction did not impair his
eligibility to operate defender of labor's
gains and thus, in time Of war, this bum
could stop work on the pipeline without mo-
lestatlon by any federal agency 1t is no vio-
latlon OF the new deal party's concept of law
and the peoples interest to impede the war
effort if you are a licensed racketeer dulv
accredited by the party's criminal subsidiary
Brother Newell never was a workman and
ne always was bum rum-pot, saloonkeep-
er, gambler, muscle man and thief Neverthe-
less, or perhaps we should say for this reason.
brother Maloney, of the Chicago chapter cd
the party of humanity let him have his head
to picket the governor of Missouri. Forrest
! c. DonneL, at Jefferson City. because Don
nell sent detachment of the state guard to
protect the workers and expedite the Job.
"A further fact pertinent to the corrupt re-
lauonshlp between the party of humanity and
the criminal underworld is the recent ndct
ment in New York City bv the county or.,,d
Jury, not the federal, of Rum-dum Joe Fav
O.! the Jersey City or Frank Hague chapte,
Oh the party of humanity. Jersey Citys rep
resentatlon in the u S. Congress is Mrs
.ioi NoItoll, female equivalent of the old
!ashloned Honest John of precinct politics. who
is chairman of the House committee on labor
Because Mrs. Norton is known for her stall
Wart devotion to the party's alliance with the
uhloneers, the other congressman NOWADAYS
invariably send to other committees bills
which would place union racketeers under
decent legal restraints
Fay is member of Frank Hague's muscle
and Hague is the who elects Mrs Norton
to Congress-
Fay was indicted in New York on charge
OF extortlng more than a million dollars from
contractors and workers on the Delaware aque-
duct. This job was largely financed by fed
eral money and if you were naive you might
wonder why the federal Department of JUS
tlce did not indict him, especially consider
ing the facts that the case has reeked for
years that that Fay's operations crossed state
lines. But you not naive so you bow to
the fact that Fay runs to fires with the Jersey
City auxiliary of the party which governs the
United States
Brother Fay is vice president of brother
| Maloney's union, which is by and large the
most evil band Of extortioners and gangsters
that the U. S. A. has been victim of since
the heyday of Al Capone and for that mat
ter, some of the old Capone mob hench-
men of the Maloney-Fay racket today.
/ To be sure, In the bootleg days did
have some rude mobs of killers but not even
in Harding's time could the national govern
ment be accused of connivng with the racke-
teers, much less of fragrant affiliation with
them, and of refusing to proceed against them