The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-16
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

making people think.
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-Last winter man
from Akron called up and said we were los
ing great many of those big tires for ar
tillery and other big war machines and bomb
ers because the union rules made it impos.
sible for willing workers to produce as fast
as they would like to.
If they exceeded the limits set by the group
of unions REPRESENTED by Sidney Hillman, of
the Political Action Committee, to whom Fran
els Biddle, the attorney general, made a fur
tive political pilgrimage during the Democratic
convention, they would be heckled and per-
secuted, they might be expelled from the I'M
ion and thus, fired altogether; and they might
be beaten up by the goons.
This man argued that an inquiring reporter
could do some good by exposing the situation,
but I thought not. The American people are
just so numb and blase that they no longer
give damn We have had thousands of such
cases. Thurman Arnold made a big factual
record of man-wasting practices enforced on
workers by the unions and the American peo-
pie just yawned him off.
Since then, as before, Biddle's Department
of Justice has been protecting the unions even
though the army is crying up sabotages, es-
pecially Of those tires. We even hear today
that some number of American soldiers will
be killed in France for lack Of those Akron
tires which might have been but aren't.
McNutt and Your Rights
This Akron man said the shortage would be
felt in about three months. Now it is here
and a survey by the War Manpower Com
mission confirms all that he said then. The
success of the advance following the invasion
was jeopardzed by restrictions on the pro-
ducton of individual workers. And this re-
striction waD enforced at the very time when
Paul McNutt was wiping out the last vestige
of your right to find your own job and work
at it, without joining a union. McNutt pre-
tends we are short of manpoWer, but that is
fake We have it to waste. But the survey
is confidential and may never be revealed,
because it throws the guilt on the CLIO, under
Hillman and the CLIO is raising money and
campaigning for Roosevelt's fourth term What
chance for his life has your son got against
that combination?
Another reason I didn't tackle the Akron
story is that it wouldn't do bit Of good
against the Roosevelt propaganda. Biddle has
announced that the Roosevelt government is
tied with the unions and Hillman and his COM
munist front are collecting political assess
ments from millions of straight Americans to
be spent for the fourth term
One of Hllman's crowd calling himself De
Lorenzo, already had said fatty that if it
came to "a question of sacrificing the life Of
your son for lack of something to fight with,
or sacrificing some gain by an aggregation
of malngering loafers in his union, he would
let your kid die. Not his kid. He has no
kids in the war. Not him, either; he is young
enough and all that but he is Hillman union
eer. But your boy, yes. Let him die
After much stalling, Biddles department fl
L-J ILL. -, 4l,s low
crook who had said he would let your son
die. But Biddle didn't do anything to the
union which still keeps De Lorenzo in the
same power and authority and defends him in
court and in dirty ropaganda. All Bddle did
was convict him of making false statement
under oath. He gets 80 days for that and
a fine of $500, but the union can pay the fine
After McNutt forces you to join the same
union, it can collect money from you toward
payment of the fine
Another Case
Do you think the Akron story is exagger
ated? If so, here Is part OF the court opinion
in a case of eight Akron Firestone employees
who beat hell out of a man who tried to
work his best.
1.-THE evidence reveals a conspiracy on the
part of certain tire builders to intimidate Ray
mond Elliott into curtailing his production to
conform to the union mems ideas OF proper
daily output the court said.
Union tire builders congregated around the
machine upon which Elliott was doing his
work, and heckled him by calling him names
wrinklng his stock and threatening him so
that he could not perform his duties Like
wise thew refused to discharge their duties,
with resultant work stoppage and loss of
production of war combat equipment
.On Monday, March 20, 1913, large group
of tire builders assembled around this ma
chine and some of the defendants took Elliott
to the outer gate where he was turned over
to more of the defendants. These by force
took Elliott to a parking lot where, in typical
gang fashion, they set upon him, beat him.
kicked him, and among other injuries inflict-
ed, broke his jaw.
GAS to Elliott, the only offense of which he
might be said to be guilty was whole-heart-
ed attempt to do full days work each day
in order to'facilitate the products of war ma.
terials.
-V-
It issmost comforting that all the peoples of
the continent are closely grouped under the
brilliant leadership of Hitler who has been ST.
pernaturally transformed by DEVELOPMENTS in
to more than an intrepid defender of Germany
he is the defender of Europe. La Fronda
Argentine newspaper recently blacklisted by
u. S.