The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-14
BY WEsTBROoK PEGLER

NEW YORK; have before evidence of
a conspiracy to blackout the picture and 81
lence the very name of Capt. Eddie Ricken-
hacker as a concession to the AFL and the
CIO throughout Michigan during the campaign
to raise money for the Red Cross last April.
The campaign ran from April l to April Z
and the office of the Michigan district chair
man of the nationwide war activities COM
nlittee Of the motion picture industry, 1892
National Bank building, Detroit, sent out two
mlmeographed bulletins, addressed to all ex-
hibitors in the state, the first one suggesting,
the second one ordering, that Richenbacker' s
presence and his name be eliminated from a
film distributed a patriotic appeal for con-
tributions to the Red Cross. Both documents
are signed, in typewriter, E. c. Beatty, chair
man.
The second and peremptory notice says,
latter a conference with Frank x. Martell,
president of the Wayne County Federation of
Labor, and c. Patrick Quinn, president of
the Greater Detroit and Wayne County Con-
gress of Industrial Organizations, to avoid any
possible repercussion in connection with the
Red Cross collections in all our theaters, I
wish to impress on all exhibitors that the
elimination of the showing of Captain Ricken-
hacker making the talk on your screen is an
absolute must and that only the sound track
is to be used.'
The word must is underlined.
eve all wish to maintain friendly and cor
dial relations with all bona fide labor organi-
zations,' the document continues, land mas
much as the two gentlemen mentioned nthis
letter definitely represent all organized labor
in this community, we have agreed on the
running of trailer as outlined above"
Apparently Rckenbacker's voice was heard,
but the war activities committee of the mo-
ton picture industry, which, of course, has tre-
mendous economic power over the theater
owners, was unwilling to let the people know
that they were hearing patriotic appeal from
| one of the greatest American patriots. Among
those on the committee several of the most
powerful Hollywood magnates.
On Oct. IL, 1898, Ralph e. Moody, assistant
attorney general of Oregon submitted report
to Gov. Charles H. Martin, describing reign
of terror and corruption extending throughout
the state under the auspices of the teamsters'
union of the AFL. The controlling power over
the terroristic unions was Dave Beck the per-
sonal appontee and representative of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's friend and political cohort,
Daniel j. Tobin. Mr. Tobin has since served
a term in the White House as the Presidents S
trusted adviser on labor and visited England
as the Presidents special emissary to British
| labor along with Joseph Padway, the attorney
for some of the foulest racketeers in the whole
evil record of unionism under the new deal.
| In his report to Governor Martin, Mr.. Moody
| disclosed that among the files seized in the
office of AL Rosser, the chief terrorist under
Beck, he found letter from Forbes Morgan,
an uncle of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who was
treasurer of the Democratic National Com
mittee in the 1882 campaign, acknowledging
$500 from Roosers terrorists which had been
turned over to Morgan by Tobin.
| THE contribution at opportune
| time'' Morgan worte Rooser, land it means
great deal I wish to thank you and the
members of your union for the splendid sup
port given President Roosevelt and the DEM
ocratic cause"
Rosser got u years in prison for arson in
the teamsters' statewise reign Of terror Tobin
and Beck, under whom he carried on his
dirty work, were honored by the new deal,
and Mrs. Roosevelt's uncle, as a gesture OF
gratitude from the liquor interests for the re-
peal of prohibition, got sinecure with the
whisky industry which paid him 100000 a
year until he died. He would have been over
paid at $4,000 a year.