The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-02
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Copyright, 1914, King Features Syndicate. Inc.
NEW YORK.-Time is a great healer and
that OLD chiseler, Harold Ickes, seems to have
forgotten what happened to his snoot when
ne got fresh during the Willkie campaign
now bad fighter he is, sometime in his life
nnds someone he can lick. It is nice ar
ransement that nature has made for us, and
Ickes u my man. In fact, / am twice-fa
ored can take that La Guardia, too, any
time, because he is bull-dozing four-flush-
er and he will tin-can it and back away,
squealing like pig under gate, If you car
~ 1T right to him and never let him get set.
Please leave him be. He is mine, too.
But am saving La Guardia for later.
Old 1ckes forgot and overspoke himself in
an Grafton IN Pittsburgh the other day and
proposed me for Secretary Of Labor under
President Thomas e. Dewey. He was trying
to be funny but what is funny about that?
Hey 1ckes. Tell US how you got rich.
Listen. now. He will holler Foul! Keep
your punches up!
LAG 0VGSA tC4A PCOPA0 AVW IS SOt IlCIs
You know what would do as Secretary oil
Labor, don't you?
I would turn the heat on viii Green the
President Of the A. F. Of L. and steam him
right out OF that job as an enemy OF labor.
Green is President Roosevelt's particular
friend, every election year. Mr.. Big threw
him big, fat political nod last Saturday
night when he chose the hoodlums' old home
week In Washington as an occasion for al
loud speech. Green endorsed the petition Of
George Scalise, an agent of the Capone mob
and president of the Building Service Union
for restoration Of his civil rights which had
been lost when he went to prison for taking
l6-year old girl on tour, trailing carni-
val troupe. He was the girls bargaining
agent. Green knew all about this conviction
and so did Joe Padway, the general counsel
of the A. F. of L., a prosperous mouthpiece
for underworld union gangsters who also
poses as = friend and spokesman of Ameri.
can labor. I would show up the rottenness
that Green and Padway couldn't see or smell
and clean up the A. F. Of L. for decent men.
Hey, 1ckes I read your book about your.
self and what wonder-man you made your
self out to be. But you never did tell us how
you happened to become rich. Neither did
Mrs. Roosevelt tell US in her book where the
Roosevelt family fortune came from. 1t cost
me lot Of time and work to find out that
old Warren Delano, the Presidents grand
father. and very aristocratic gentleman,
too, made the dough smuggling opium into
China back in the l84o's. Why don't you CO.
operate, 1ckes, and give us a tell?
You know something else 1 would do as
Secretary Of Labor? l would holler until Con-
gress amended the Wagner act that lying
fraud that the Roosevelt crowd put over in
the guise Of gain for labor. so that, here
in 1914, millions of Americans can't work to
produce guns and ammunition for their own
sons in the war. unless they join Roosevelt's
unions and pay blackmail to the fourth term
campaign fund.
Under the Wagner act. this great, milky,
warm-hearted friend OF labor has arranged
50 that he can take check-off from the
money paid out Of the public treasury to the
war workers, to buy himself another four
years How do you like that? Don't tell me
Roosevelt didn't plan it that way. Listen,
Ickes, you always said he was very smart
man. So don't tell me he wasn't smart enough
to foresee that. And it he thinks it is wrong
to shake down the whole working commun-
ty OF the United States for his campaign fund
why doesn't he stop it?
And / would make certain, too, that bu1ch
OF union high-binders with prison records or
with traitorous personal histories in the
communist conspiracy wouldn't be allowed
to sit as kangaroo courts and blackball an
American workman out Of his occupation all
over the country on charges of ''un-union &C.
tivity'' for fighting thieves and communists.
Hey, 1ckes, you penny moocher, tell
US about the two times you put yourself away
in the Naval hospital in Washington, for So
a day, all contrary to law, and you rich
guy, able to pay your way in the regular hos
pitfalls as all other sick civilians have to do.
Why, you cheap sponger, you couldn't rent
han-room in a pitcher-and-bowl flea bag in
Washington for three bucks day. You know
who paid the overhead for your hospital bar
gain, don't you, Well, did, and George Spell
win. We paid it.
Did you marry into the chips, Ickes? You
didn't mention that in your book did YOU?
But don't be bashful. Tell us your inspiring
success story.
understand you are a great pal of the
common man. Is that why you live on a
street 50 exclusive that you call it in Who
Who Private Road" Ickes?
You like repartee, don't you, Ickes? You
like 1t kind Of rough, don't you?
You are my man.