Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-15
FAIR
ENOUGH y
BY Westbrook
PeeIer

II
ron called up and said we
were losing a great many OF
those big tires for artillary and
other big war machines and
bombers because the union rules
made ii impossible for willing
workers 10 produce as fast as
they would like TO.
If they exceeded the limits
set by the group of unions rep
resented by Sidney Hillman Of
the Political Action Committee,
TO whom Francis -Biddle,
attorney general. made a furtiYe
political pilgrimage during the
Democratic convention, they
would be recalled and perse-
cuted, they might be expelled
from the union and. then, fired
altogether; and they might be
beaten up by the goons.
This man argued that an in
quiring reporter could do some
good by exposing the situation,
but l thought not. The Ameri-
can people are just so numb and
-hlase- that they no longer give
damn. We have had thou
sands of such cases. Thurman
Arnold made a big factual rec
ord 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, especially of those
tires. We even hear today that
some number of American SOL
diers will be killed in France
for lack of those Akron tires
which might have been but
aren't.
THIS Akron mon said the
l. shortage would be felt in
about three months. Now il
is here and a survey by the war
manpower commission confirms
all that he said then.
The success of the advance
following the invasion has been
jeopardlZed by restrictions on
the production of individual
workers.
And this restriction was en-
forced at the very time when
Paul McNutt was wiping out
the fast vestige Of your right
10 find your own job and work
al IT, without joining a union.
:tf Re Mutt pretends we are short
OF manpower. but that is a fake.
We have il 10 waste.
But the survey is confidential
and may never be revealed, be-
cause II throws the guilt on the
Go, under Hillman, and the
Go is raising money and cam
paignlng for Rooosevelt's fourth
term. What chance for his life
has your son got against that
combination?
Another reason ! didn't tackle
the Akron story is that
1t couldn't do a bit Of good
against the Roosevelt propa-
ganda
Biddle has announced that the
Roosevelt government is tied
with the unions and Hillman
and his Communist front are
collecting political assessments
from millions Of straight Ameri-
cans 10 be spent for the fourth
term.
ONE of Hillman's crowd, call
~ ing himself De Lorenzo, al
ready had said fatty that If il
came 10 a question Of sacrificing
the life OF your son for lack Of
something 10 fight with. or sac
rlficlng some gain by an aggre-
cation of malingering 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 -lS-a-Hillman unioneer.
But your boy yes. Let him die.
After much stalling. Biddle's
department finally had 10 do
something about this low crook
who said he would let your son
die.
But Biddle didn't do anything
10 the union which still keeps
De Lorenzo in the same power
and authority and defends him
in court and in dirty propa-
ganda
All Biddle did was convict
him of making a 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 10
join the same union. il can COL
lect money from you toward
payment Of the fine.
no YOU think the Akron
II story is exaggerated? II
so here is part of the court
opinion in a case of eight Akron
FireStone employees who beat
hell out Of man who tried 10
work his best.
The evidence reveals a con-
spiracy an the part of certain
tire-builders To intimiGate Ray
mond Elliott into curtailing his
production To conform to the
union mems ideas Of proper
AaiI., a.. $500, c~.l