The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-15
BY wEsTBRooK PEGLER

making people think ~ ' sooo po'po's o.
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
NEW YORK.-Because am loyal follow
er and ardent, If secret. admirer of the great
and gracious lady, and because Mrs. R. is
inarticuately bashful shall take it upon my
self to explain what she meant in couple
of shy and sidelong remarks published in re.
cent issues of the Ladies Home Journal in
answer to inquiries from other, though lesser,
idolators. This department in the LHJ really
is required reading for Americans who want
to know what Mrs. Roosevelt is fixing to do
for, or to- them.
One person asked Mrs. R. what could be
done to help saleswomen to obtain a living
wage, and another remarked that union work.
ers gain increases by striking but white
collar workers wages are frozen and asked
us this fair?'
To both, Mrs. Roosevelt answered that the
only thing to do was join a union.
only the strength Of an organization can
bring about any changes" said she to the
first client and to the second, 1.-THE average
white collar workers are able to do exactly
what the union workers are able to do-un-
less, OF course, they are not organized in
which case the individual has limited op.
What our heroine really meant was that
the boss is forbidden by law to raise the
pay of individual who has earned a raise
if the individual refuses to join a union. But
if a whole group Of individuals join the union
then the boss can be compelled to raise the
wages of all, including the 1oafers and in.
competents without discrimination. This nat
uraly multiplies by dozens, hundreds or even
thousands of times the cost Of raise to a
single conscientious and efficient worker AND
adds an enormous unnecessary amount to the
cost OF their product, whether to the govern
ment or to the consuming public. and runs
up the cost Of living and makes initiation
But the union will make a campaign con
tribution to Mrs. Roosevelt's party in the in
terests of fourth Germ in the White House
for her in the role Of gracious lady, and will
exert itself in her behalf through it's politica
organization. So you will begin to understand
why Mrs. Roosevelt wants the individuals tt
join the unions and why she is little reti
cent about the deeper reasons beneath he1
advice.
| The boss may want to raise the pay o.
George Spelvin American, or his daughter
Georgette, but he isn't allowed to. He nigh
60 to Jail. The effect is to make dirty
louise of the boss and set the Spelvins tt
wondering whether it wouldn't be better, after
all, to abandon their stiff-necked self-respec
|
Mrs. Roosevelts political and financial back
ers.
| What Mrs. Roosevelt really is saying is tina
| il you don't do as she says you can damn
well starve and it will serve you right But i
you do join, she will reward you and sh.
hopes you will be weak enough to surrender
| to the communists, goons, thieves and all 9th
er such loyal adherents Of the totalitaria1
movement; and stupid enough to believe i
| tho hat WI
holding you down, and not the Roosevelt gov
eminent of which she is an influential mem
Der. particularly in this field.
| What union do you join. then, if you are
saleswoman? Well, the AFL has a little dand'
whose head man in Chicago, racketeer
born Pollock. but known as Max Caldwell
| came up with a shortage of 100000 in tn,
treasury, bought winter villa from the lat,
Frank Nitti of the Capone gang, in MAN
Beach, conspired to hide his union treasure
from the draft so that he wouldn't be avail
able for questioning by either the federal O.
state prosecutors and, in the end, got ava.
with it all simply because he was defende
of 1abor's gains
And you know the white-collar union tina
she has in mind, don't you? Why, that is tn
communist front organization known as tn
UPOWA, or United Office and Professions
Workers of America, of the CO. whose presi
dent, Lewis Merrill, also had another nam
when he came to this country few year
ago. This Merrill, as he calls himself for som
odd reason, not that it isn't nice name
had his pictura taken with Henry Wallace re
Gently and he is very hot fourth term fellow
and a fanatical second-fronter, although h
was all against this imperialist war until Hit
Ter attacked Russia. For certain reasons h
isn't anywhere near the second front for whic
he clanored so loudly. He is right here il
New York rounding up the spelvins drive
Into his pound by the gracious lady and kick
ing into her fourth term campaign fund wit
money taken from the Spelvins while the son
Of the Spelvins are fighting as his proNe
around Cherbourg.
isn't the gracious lady the coy and artfu
one?
We are only misleading ourselves if W
imagine that at the end Of war that ha
SCARED Europe with deep divisions, all tn
countries of the continent will lie down togeth
err like lambs. Europe is made up Of differ
ences. Those differences will continue to exis
Sir Samuel Hoare. British ambassador
Snain