The sub., 1944-05-11
Letters to inc Editor
To the Editor of The Sub:

the United States Government no matter what our personal feelings or reactions may be, it is impoSsi- ble to ignore Industry'S fragrant gesture of defiance against fair la bor practice, even to open rebel lion against legal agencies set up by the people of the United States to take care of and mediate all such controversies.
 Ignoring the political aspects of the case it appears to be a frantic attempt of the monied baronial sys- tenn long established in the United States to retrench and hold their line. It comes to another and most important clause in the American Constitution, that this is govern ment "of the people, by the peo- pie, and for the people" It comes to point of whether, through the threat of the power of money in Washington lobbying and industrial control, one man, or small group of men, can and shall through ar rogance and purse-pulling be able to control and buy Congress, the authorized representatives of the people, and the President of the United States, the titular head and of 130,000,000 Ameri- cans.
 It seems very strange that men of MT. Avery's calibre and strong handed reputation should scream Fascism or Gestapo methods, when men of his ilk were only too happy to call out the so-called "Gestapo" in infractions by Labor of War Labor Board rulings-especially in the case of the coal strike. It is most significant that Industry is in complete agreement with the WLB's decisions against Labor, but are unwilling to recognize its ju- when Industry itself re- ceives an undesirable decision.
 In case after case Labor has real ized it's duty to the First Front, and has remained on the job under serious and unendurable conditions, awaiting patiently a decision from the ponderous and slow moving of the War Labor Board. Labor has not received all WLB decisions joyfully, either, but has submitted with as good grace as possible, and took whatever fur ther legal actions it could without interruptions of work.
 Labor has not seized upon a dra- matic moment in the history of our nation to martyrize one of its national outstanding figures by traitorouS and seditiouS acts. It is most unfortunate for personal en- terprise that the head executive of Montgomery Ward Company should take advantage of the one moment above all, the assault by the United Nations on the fortress of Europe, to start wave of La Dor vs. Industry feeling through out the United States, when we should be standing shoulder to shoulder behind our men at the front at this critical period.
 Despite an Independent Union ist's political disagreements with either the AFL or C1O, the thought remains that now is the time for all labor to call a truce on differ ences for the duration of this war, just as the United States, the Brit ish Empire and the United States of Soviet Russia have done, and to take firm stand against com mon enemy, Fascism. It Is easy for us all to remember the defiance of Capital vs. Labor in the early days of Germany's Nazi government that eliminated in the complete disso- lution of the labor organizations in Germany, when Hitler came f. nally into unchallenged power. Those first arrogant industrialists who assisted in the black murder of the labor movement in Germany were soon rewarded by their Feuh- Ter by heading the list of those numbered for "a necessary purge of the personally ambitious in the all for Hitler Nazi-State.
 President Roosevelt's quick and well-timed action in the matter of the MontgomeryWard vs. not just the CIO but Labor was just and impersonal. He proved that the people of the United States were still running their own coun- try, that in spite of war and it's necessary repression of many per- sonal rights, that the rights of man