The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-31

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By WESTBROOK PEGLER
| NEW YORK, - One day last week, the
New York World-Telegram carried six labor
| stories, one editorial on labor and a column
by Fred Perkins, out of Washington, also deal
ing with labor, or unionism. The next day, the
New York Times had two stories on page
one, three on page 10, plus two jumps from
the page one pieces, one on page Is and one
editorial on labor. This was Just an average
run CT labor news and comment and it sug-
9ests to me that next to the news from the
frort and perhaps the news of the political
campaigns, it is the most important topic OF
the time in the United States. However, you
can separate labor, or union, news from the
political matter because some political stories
deal with labor and most labor Stories ed-
toriais and essays have political implications,
and this is election year.
At any rate, think our people have Jumped
labor news and comment ahead of other topics
which used to interest them much more, such
as sports, which once were almost mania with
us, and murders and other crime
We are now familiar with the personal and
political HISTORIES characteristics and connec-
tons of many union bosses who 10 years ago
were only background figures and people are
beginning to realize that these few men, not
more than a hundred high-ranking officials.
with absolutely no mandate from the voters,
have more power in this country than all the
state governors put together and actually, up
to now, more power than Congress. The reason
why they have more power is that, first they
have millions of dollars to spend to defeat
individual governors and individual senators
and congressman in isolated contests, and Sec
ond, have the backing of the national govern
ment. meaning the administration, and the
friendship of the Supreme Court. The COVER
nors aren't organized together on national
front and If a congressman is knocked off in a
primary or election by union money and propa-
ganda, the others just say, tough luck, pal
and pull in their necks. Not all the rest of
them, but most of them
Some people have said to me that the public
and, particularly the women are sick and tired
OF labor stuff but what say is the hell they
are, although they may have been once But,
If so, we might just as well fold up the Repub-
lie and slide into Nazism or Communism 1t
makes no difference which because these few
men have absolutely no regard for our rights
as citizens and are hell-bent to take over the
country with sub-government operating I'M
der the protection of the administration For
example, they think nothing of passing an eco
nomlc death sentence on citizen for violating
ing to the public courts against union SEN
tence or for attending meeting of discon-
tented members to organize a rival faction.
Some of them came here as young refugees
from oppression, themselves, along about the
time OF the last war but went out soap-boxing
around New York for revolution to louise up
the promised land instead of enlisting in the
Army to fight the enemy of the promised
land in France If they had got away with their
revolution the Kaiser would have won the
Western front and probably the promised land
would have gone the way of Russia for the
nexf Is years but nevertheless, today, some of
them up to their eyes in American politics
and putting themselves up as leaders of the
American working man and woman. Others
are just common crooks, others native gang
politicians of the true Tammany type who
tolerate crooks just as Tammany boss pro-
tects gamblers and jury-fixers, and other die
tatorial ignoramuses who rule with the gavel
and the bat and, for an actual fact, don't
know enough about the freedoms which they
babble about in speeches written for them by
their prostitute publicity to realize that
they violate those freedoms every day.
1t has been long and repetitious process.
teaching the American people what unionisn
is under the New Deal laws, what its powers
are, who is who among the bosses, how thsy
line up in their rivalres which are the COM
munists and how they operate. And, most i'm
portant of all, how the whole gang Of them
with the greatest financial power in American
politics have interposed their authority between
the people and their constitutional, financial
power in American politics have interposed
their authority between the people and their
constitutional financial. economic, civil and
human nights, with the exception of the mice
workers an absolute dictatorship under a ty
rant who has an ex-convict, { burglar, on MS
! governing board and the carpenters, greedy,
spawling shakedown ruled by family dy-
nasty, they are all in the Democratic party
they ale out to win and if they win the Amerl-
can workers lose for there is no reason u
believe that in fourth term President Roose.
welt would permit any mile impairment OF
their powers than he has permitted IN Tue
past amounting, in all, to just exactly none.
-V--
will be foolish for post war travellers
to 60 bothto Berlin and Tokyo. They'll look
just the same r.N
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