Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-12-17

C. c "a a t tiGn i,91..,,,. Of A..l
ers. The event Edward J. Duck
was their 48th annual conven-
ton, and what a convention it
was.
They settled all our problems
for us, so there's really nothing
to worry about, as soon as the
wars over. They decided that
the peace must be won, economi-
cally, and they meant that they
should be the winners. In fact
they formulated what they call
master plan" for education
Of the masses, and they readily
admitted that guys like you and
me are unconcerned about de-
tails, we think in "blurs' and
are moved primarily by SIM
pie, emotional ideas. Their
spokesman explained exactly
how they intend to capitalize on
our ignorance.
EDUCATE TOCKHOLDERS
Chairman J. Cheever I think
/ know what ~" stands for, and
he should have used the full
name instead of "Cheever")
Cowdin, Universal Pictures big
wig, urged the education" Of
eleven million industry stock
holders. He wants them organ
lied and aroused, he says.
Soon a corps of trained speak
ers will tour our factories, and
give our unwilling ears no rest
with a deluge of thirty-minute
blasts of propaganda, urging
what they choose to call coop
eration". Remember when we
"cooperated" with Willkie with
a barrage of tomatoes at the
Auto-Lite ?Those were the days
what a greetinRD These fire
side chats will be on company
time, of course, because your
company's president wants you
to be sure to hear them.
Newspaper publishers, editors,
radio commentators, movie pro-
ducers, writers and lecturers will
be solicited for their aid, and
will be only too glad to join in
the crusade for free enter
prise,
The nations press, radio, the
aters and schools will preach the
philosophy that only the MANS
brand of free enterprise can give
postwar prosperity to America.
Even a few Of the churches will
echo the sentiments of King
Crawford, if the NAM has its
way.
PROPAGANDA
You will read cleverly prepar-
ed newspaper advertisements,
and you won't even be able to
read Little Orphan Annie Gas
if you can now without swal-
lowing a good mouthful of prop
aganda. Probably, as is already
the case, these attacks against
the common man will be so
worded that to voice resentment
against them would brand you
as a fifth columnist in the eyes
of someone more gullible. How
ever, you will not find President
Roosevelt's signature attached
to any of them because he, too,
ill be taking walloping from
them, neither openly, or by the
twentieth century method
subtlety.
Groups will be organized to
cooperate" with education mot
my type, in case Bob Guncheon
is still wondering what is my
type), churches (again, not my
type), home (ditto), and agri-
culture. But there will be no
committee set up to work with
organized labor.
THE best friend big business
has today is congress, the eager
listeners were told. Now all they
need is public opinion, and they
are going after that, hammer
and tongs.
All right, brother, here is
where you come in. 1t will save a
lot Of time and space to say
that anything the NAM is sup
porting is something you DOM
want any part of. That's a pretty
big statement, but between now
and the end of the war doesn't
leave much time for education
in economies or politics. 1t is
your job to see that your union
is defended, and it is your job
to expose this bunk when it
splatters all over the community.
Alfred p. Sloan, of General
Motors, speaks of the opportu-
nifty that will develop out of the
war, one which will "never re-
neat ITSELF, and he tells his fell
low business men that it's now
or never.
Let's make it never! If we
lose the fight on the home front,
this war might just as well have
been lost, because there are as
many influential american Fas-
fists" as there are anywhere
else. We just control ours bet
ter Ask Henry Wallace. He
knows.