The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-29
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

NEW YORK-The strike of the elevator
men who tried to tie up the perpendicular
transportation of 81, 600 helpless and unoffend-
ing American workers in Rockefeller Center
and to a large extent succeeded, points up
two important subjects of great Importance
to the whole nation.
First it demonstrates in dramatic style the
dishonesty and worthlessness of the pledge
by William Green and Phillip Murray, for the
ALL and the CLIO, respectively that in return
for certain concessions by the government
which they did not deserve and had no right
to demand the members of their unions would
generously refrain from stabbing the nation
in the back in time of war.
do not know the precise number of this
strike in the series that has interrupted work
and production in practically all phases of
the war effort since Pearl Harbo1. But I am
confident that there have been at least 1000
of them, proving that the pledge, to which
Mr.. Green and Mr.. Murray nevertheless pious-
ly refer every now and again was only
political fraud Some of these strikes have
been called wildcat strikes by the union bosses
in an attempt to dsown responsibility and
escape blame Some have been more spon-
taneous walkouts not authorized by the work
ers themselves but ordered by the union boss
es as was the case recently at Stewart field,
an adjunct of the United States Military Acad-
envy at Newburgh, N. Y There the construc
ton workers. who were receiving, on an aV-
erage, much more pay than a New York po-
lceman, would have continued to man the
Jobs if they had been allowed to, but had to
60 out lest they be expelled from their unions
and beaten up or otherwise terrorized by the
racketeers of the notorious Joe Fay mob.
They were not invited to vote on strike
issue but were pulled" off the important
work of completing air fields and removing
distractions which menace the lives of young
fliers That, too, has been called a wildcat
strike but it was ordered by officers of union
which is foul and predatory racket, the
president of which, William E Maloney,
Chicago racketeer, has received public ex-
pressions of the highest admiration from Will
liam Green. Green is thoroughly aware of
the character of the union and of Maloney
and Fay as individual racketeers but he has
not only paid official compliments to these
two individuals, amounting to official indorse-
ment of their notorious activities but. IN
conspicuous case in Chicago denounced as
dSrupter an honest worker who appealed to
him for help against Maoney's oppression
and was murdered in cold blood within
week after Green brushed him off.
In the Rockefeller Center case rebellous
faction of a Building Service Union tried to
break away claiming that they had been de-
MED their rights within their union. Wildcat
strike it may have been, but in some cases
that is the only way for large groups of I'M
fOrtunateS who are driven INTO the cofralS IN
organizing drives and branded as the property
of this or that union boss without being given
chance to vote on their bargaining agents
or to reject bargaining agents selected for
them, the same process is followed in Muir
rays organization and the whole system is
based on the ant-labor policy of the Roose-
welt government which is the worst enemy
of free labor to arise in the United States
since the abolition of Negro slavery.
Green and Murray are placated and nat
tered and courted by the United States gov
eminent with the conscious knowledge that
the systems which they operate contain iniq-
uities no less vicious than those of the Nazl
regime and with brutal intent to establish
those systems as the sub-government of all
the workers of the nation.
Both of these men have shown themselves
to be resourceful and dangerous enemies OF
the American worker in every craft and call
ing and they are the more pernicious because
they have been widely publicized and def
initely established in the public understanding
as altruistic idealists who live and work only
to serve the American worker. They are the
two leading political proteges of the Roosevelt
government because they understand, repre-
sent and strive for the same eventual aim
of oppression under union boss slavery.