Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10
Manpower
MonoIoe by
Geo. SpeIvin
Will ! Leave My Family2
Will Hopkins? McNuts!'
BY wEsTBROOK PEGLER

DCIduot IL yOu Niiiih yOo VI
going to snag me away from the
tender embrace of my dear ones
around my family hearthside SO
/ have to 60 way off to some
goffasaken hole of creation TO
make steamboats, and sleep in
some triple-deck flea-bag with a
lot of strangers, who maybe some
of them don't smell any too
fresh, and live on dogs and
hamburger-rye.
Well, brother, leave me ask you
how does this affect Harry Hop
kins because from all / hear he
never lived so high in his life
with a nice free apartment in
the White House for he and his
bride at my expense and the
most dough he ever got.
CTTLL he has the gall TO print
- an article that we Spelvins
will have 10 do whatever he
says and we can't eat this and
we can't wear that because we
are so short of manpower.
And how about all those for
eign-talking buns down in
Washington what they call them
economists and they come
around and they tell Congress
how the only way to defeat the
aggressors you have 10 quit your
regular job and break up your
home but what about those
buns?
Why don't they quit their
jobs and go 10 work? y
1 mean If we have got to hire
economists 10 tell the Spelvins
what TO do well why don't you
get some economists that speak
United States and not talk like
a bunch of comedians and the
regular American economist will
anyway try to figure out how
you can buy yourself a house
and lot and an extra suit OF
clothes.
A ND the eveI-loving war de-
"A partment she doesn't have
TO do the washing but send II
10 the laundry and a few bot
ties of drinking whisky for
merrymaking on Christmas and
anniversaries whereas those for
eign-talking buns all they can
think of everybody has got 10
/ be Door because the Americans
are spoiled.
And you can't have a little
house or fat all to yourself
but everybody chum up and
papa goes TO Wichita and
mamma she gets sent to Bridge
port and the kids they go 10
some school where they all have
TO learn TO be grease-monkey
snd the first thing you know.
well, the old man gets lonesome
and the old lady may be too and
so the lallygagging begins.
If that is your idea why Nc
Nuts TO you. McNutt. and my
regards TO Harry Hopkins if you
will be SO kind.
A ND furthermore, McNutt.
"A while we are taking our
shirt down leave me ask YOU
out and out and no beating
around the bush.
SuppoSing l say all right I
am patriotic and / will do my
bit but i will be damned IL I
will pay $3.50 or even SIS out Of
my wages to any muscle from
some racketeering union or buy
any life insurance from them,
so the racketeer's no-account
bum Of a no-good loafer OF a
chiseling son will get 40 or
$4,000 bucks year out of the
premiums and L can buy the
same insurance 10 times as
cheap a hundred places right
here in town but have TO join
the union because you say /
have TO go to work in the steam
boat plant and before / can Join
i have TO buy this HACKERS in
surance or otherwise you are go
ing TO stick me in the army.
Because If that is the idea,
well, brother, you are Just out
Of your mind, what I mean.
PERSONALLY, McNutt, I have
Il not positively got anything
against you, personally, but il
you are fixing to shove the
Spelvins around why stop poi
soning the issue with evasions
which only stifie the sap-roots
OF confidence.
Because ii is either one thing
or other and if we are hard up
for manpower, well, Spelvin is
your man but on the other hand
you take where a printer, for
instance, he only works five
seven-hour days a week and if
he works four hours overtime
this week he gets laid off one
whole day next week TO make a
days work for some one.
And the same way in the rail-
road business and you call that
labor's gains so / have TO bust
I'D my love-bower and go TO
Seattle or Bangor and eat in
the quick-and-dirty while Harry
Hopkins and his ever-loying,
they get caviar and champagne
wine and free rent and laundrY(
and room service and still HI
has got the gall to be telling me-
has he, McNutt?
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