The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-12
Fair Enough

| L UT LHOuSu
responsibility for the personal views Of MI. Payer.
and often disagrss with them - much As many Of
making people think.
% BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER
NEW YORK-This will be my last piece
for the New York World Telegram and in part
ing should like to say some things about
Roy Howard editor of the World-Telegram)
which, so far as my knowledge goes, have
never been written before.
Howard is liberal newspaper publisher and
I would point out that liberal publisher is
one who permits the expression Of views con-
trary to his editorial policy in his newspapers.
Often have written matter which I knew TO
be in disagreement with Towards ideas and
have seen it in print nevertheless, and Hey
wood Broun was, for all practical purposes,
an enemy of Howard but was allowed to have
his say down to their parting, few days
before Haywood died.
BY contrast, consider the attitude of the
Daily Worker, which fired a movie reviewer
because he refused to follow the communist
party lire in his review of Gone With the
Wind and of those butchers'-pa paper "intellec-
tual'' weekles which publish nothing for which
they cannot assume editorial sponsorship, ex-
they reserve the last word for themselves
Or study the many communist and less vic.
lent left wing publications, most of them pub
lshed by the unions. and observe, as you
must that the more liberal they pretend to
be in the political sense, the more bigoted and
untruthful they are editorially.
Howard showed editorial courage in permit.
ting me to develop the subject of crookedness
and communism in the union movement and
to point out, long ago, when the menace of
union sub-government was unseen by most of
us, the developments which are taking place
today in the corrupt alliance of the national
government with INSCRIPTIONS men, some Of
them ignorant, some Of them shrewd, and
many of them criminally crooked, against the
human and constitutional rights Of the whole
American people. Up to that time, in VIC
lent and thoughtless emotional reaction against
the abusive customs OF many employers, most
OF the American people thought OF unions as
organizations almost sacred. We had not ex-
amned the facts and therefore did not rea-
lie that Sidney Hllman was capable of pro-
posing that all workers in the state of New
York be compelled to join unions and tina.
these unions in turn, should contribute to the
campaign funds of a political party, which
was pure fascism, bearing the cachet of Be-
nito Mussolini.
Few of us understood that men could be
made to join the bolermakers and buy COM
pulsory insurance for the private profit of
the union presidents son who received COM
mission on the premiums from the insurance.
company. Or that an underworld racketeer
had the power to paralyze the elevator trans
portatlon in New York by his own decree
and with the backing of the government and
the A. F.of L. and then could negotiate with
Mayor La Guardia for the ending of the block
AIDE, even though La Guardia's police could
have shown him in an hour that he was
treating with
prehend that many unions, particularly the
CO. were not "organizing" the steel and auto
workers with h e r vi o ! e n instructions
against the authority of government but dra-
goonlng captives into their ranks by terror
and bloodshed in connivance with the new deal
and its satellite governors in the states and
mayors in the cities.
This education pioneering took editorial
courage because it was difficult to convince
the people that the workers, themselves, and
the whole community, were victims of such
unlonism. Many other editors p r n t e this
touchy material but Towards position was
special He was the sponsor and carried the
target.
Most of the workers did want union repre-
sentation but it not necessary for them
to sacrifice the enormous loot, amounting by
now to thousands of millions or abandon 50
many of their rights as human beings and
citizens, to obtain this representation.
The power of the unions was and remains
great. They can declare, if they cannot always
enforce, boycotts against a paper and its ad-
vertisers and have repeatedly tried it. Many
| of them in conspiracy with the national
government, with tr C k y and Inscriptions
friends planted in positions of public power
who can harass and hurt an opponent.
There are insinuatons that Howard was in
Inundated by the new deal and the unions.
Had that been so, he would not have asked
me to come in and discuss a new contract
This was his chance to be rid Of me, al
together.
| I recall just one actual threat of financial
pressure and I did not even hear of that
until months later and then only in casual
! and bantering conversation with friend in
the advertising department.
| He said that the Italian line had Withdrawn
it's steamship advertising long before and that
the paper had lost $40, 900 in revenues because
of something I had written about Mussolini
| Howard, if he knew about it, never even
mentioned it to me-
| Seventy-three and thirty.
Editors Note; Seventy three and thirty in
old time telegraphers language used on all press
wires in the country "best regards and good
or rather "good mighty
| -V
We are appealing even to those who do not
belong to the family of our church to reconsider
| s-AS~