The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-22

With them as much as many OF his read.
| srs His articles serve the good purpose
Of making people th1nK)
Nv wEsTBRoOK PEGLER
fcopyright 1914, by King Features syndicate)
NEW YoRK-We were talking about i'm
ro;oration and foreignism and when I finally
an hold of the dice said I would take for
NV noint the contention that those who are
- n.stv to the native American in their solici-
h,de for the privileges Of the foreign-born were
Inconsistent and hypocritical and just playing
ower-politics.
Now I will make my point. Shove back men,
and let US have no crock-dlce
These people are all new Dealers OF course.
T don't mean to concede that new dealers are
the only ones who believe we should continue
tn have more or less immigration after this
war because lots Of Republicans ~4sagree with
nv own idea that we should suspend lmrni-
grafton until we have cooled off here at home
ard had a chance to observe whether Europe
goes communist Possibly, some Republicans
would be thinking, wistfully, about cheap Euro
pean labor, too.
On the other hand, some influential southern
Democrats are sore and Inundated in their
own party by the use of Sidney Hillnan and
the communists who certainly do not speak
the political language Of the old democratic
solid South which gave us the second Ku Klux
Khan and 100 per cent Arnericansm only 20
years ago.
The people I am arguing with are those
new dealers who have lost patience with thu
American system and have turned to Europe
for methods Of RECOMMENDATION as solutions for
! OR American problems.
They say we should be entirely hosptabls
to immigrants and, far from Tightening up our
naturalization laws SO as to eliminate old con-
tinental feuds from our domestic politics, would
relax them.
AL right, then, let us see how they stand
on immigration from state to state and from
town to town here at home.
We find that they are against that. We find
that, where native Americans are concerned
here at home, they believe in sub-human clas-
sifications, passports between state and state
and even between one village and another in
the same county and in high and sometimes
prohibitive head-taxes and the poll tax
Just minute, Mrs. Roosevelt and Dublnsky
and you, too, Mr.. Big, those are still my dice.
You people all support system whereby
a native American carpenter in one town in,
say, New Jersey. must 60 first to the union
hall when he moves in town in, say, Indiana.
instead of going to an employer, to get job.
He must 60 to the union hall and put in his
card for a transfer and slap down a transfer
fee which certainly is an immigration head-tax
| intended to keep out foreigners in that tiny
| jurisdiction. He may be Plymouth Rock
American but, outside his home town and
state, although still within his own country.
he is a foreigner" And l am not picking
7 ;,c{ 10Y,
is carpenter for example although he might
be an electrician or plumber or boiler-maker.
Then, if things are slack this native Amer
can Immigrant must 90 to the bottom OF
the list and the locals or natives you
might call them, who naturally want all the
available work for themselves, keep him in
suspense until they are ready to give him a
card permit.
Meantime if he goes skulking around in the
dark of the moon to mend a latch here or
shave swollen door there all on the sneak
in his own glorious free land and the union
catches him at it, he is dirty scab forever.
1t makes no difference that his family are
hungry or his wife is having baby.
He is an Immigrant and those who would
tear the heart out Of you for discriminating
against foreigner from Europe, will call you
a dirty, labor-baiting rat if you say his ma
tlonal government should, at lease sympathize,
with this native American.
II the local in the new location decides never
to "naturalize'' this American, that is all right
with the new dealers and they have been
fighting all these years against all proposals
to bring union rules and constitutions into con-
formity and moral consistency with the Con-
stitution of the United States.
Your new dealer also thinks it is all right
10 establish sub-human classes of native Amer
lean workers who can't vote on equality With
those who hold full membership. In me
cases, it takes the votes of 100 sub-human
American workers to equal the vote OF one
regular member who may be an unnaturalIzed
European and communist at that. That goes,
specifically, for Mrs Roosevelt because she
once delivered one of her spells before a crowd
of strikers belonging to just such a union,
ali of them sub-human members, TOO, JUST
before the union bosses turned them loose tor
a violent instruction against the laW1u gov
eminent of the City Of New York IN mass
assault on small detail of Policemen
Your new dealer believes in severely re-
stricted passports within the country Tor ma
tive Americans because he upholds the right
of union to stop immigration into gwen
district If a man of skill can't get union
clearance into the new town that means ne
can't earn living. And that means he doesn't
migrate. ..
And your new dealer believes in prohlbltlve
protective tariffs, too, by W | c n American
workers in Ohio are prevented from manufac-
TURING gooos for sale in New York. Inc ne"
deal Supreme Court upheld that only a lew
days age.