The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-20
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER

NEW YORK; heard and have read Wen
dell Wilkes remarks on labor relations in
his nominating speech in St. Louis and have
concluded that he is no more honest than
any other trimmer, bidding for the support
of the professional tyrants Of the unions. For
all that he said to the contrary, we may con-
cude that he would placate and cultivate
them and help to strengthen their grip on
the people.
1.-THE adoption OF wise labor policy is Of
the utmost Importance he said.
That means nothing.
ut must not be in the punitive spirit of
the Southern Democrats Smith-Connaly act.
Nor do we want policy like the present one
that divides our country into warning factions
of labor leaders and business executives, fore
ing each to jockey for power and struggle to
convert political parties to its purpose. We
must, of course, recognize that men who work
and do not own, have no adequate economic
and social protection except in their collec-
| tip strength. But, basically, we must pro-
coed on the knowledge that we will never
solve the problem of the relationship of labor
to management, either to government, by
mere modification of this law or that law.
We will solve it only by making labor an
essential part of government. In addition to
real representation in a real Cabinet, labor S
representatives shall help determine govern
ment's fiscal, domestic and international pol
icies. Thus labor will share the responsibility
and the results
That is all.
Who will be the Representatives" OF ia
bor' and just what group Of Americans con-
sttute labor?
Mr. Willkie was not frank about these ques-
lions but it must be assumed that, like all
politicians, he regards such men as Green,
Murray and Lewis as the Representative
and their subjects, including the unwilling
captives driven into their unions by the terror
and by the political and economic pressure
OF the Roosevelt government, as labor
BY omission, Mr. Willke advised us that
he believed an alert, energetic, honest worker
must be forbidden, under penalty of complete,
permanent ostracism and destitution to do
tar days work in excess of the showdown
rule and thus earn more money than the
loafer and sulker. He meant that the worst
shall be the standard and that the best must
conform to that standard, in both production
and earnings
BY his opposition to any change in ''this
law or that law he throws in with the racke-
teer VINO straddles the roads and in the name
OF labor commits extortion and highway
robbery with the sanction of the United States
supreme Court. He holds with the rule of
the dictator who throw an honest Ameri-
can worker out of work in all union shops
throughout the country for the crime of less
maJeste to shop steward or for using un-
becoming language" to an underworld racke-
teer or a traitorous communist holding Of
ice IN the union. He confers on the union
trial board, a kangaroo court, the power to
supersede the regular public courts and in
tllct terrible penalties on decent workers and
their dependent families because he knows
that the Individual worker especially after
ne has been suspended and fired and lost
MS income cannot afford to lie idle for months
and pay the costs Of his appeal to the higher
courts OF the union and, if rejected there,
appea! further to the public courts.
WllIkle knows that in the absence of amend
ments to this law or that law" the boss
unloneers whom he regards as representa-
tlves' of Labor have the power to collect
political assessments to be poured into the
campaign funds Of Wendell L. Willke even
from American workers who would regard
MS election as national calamity. He would
not disturb this condition by an amendment
to this law or that law nor would he insist
that the constitutions of the unions be COM
PEELED to conform to the Constitution of the
United States.
In whole effect, Mr.. Willxie was offering us
fuller and more cynical and brutal devel-
opment of the fascism of the unions which
we have experienced under the new DEAL
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