Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17

Win UTlch- Clayton w.
bats and tax Fountain
bills. Don't the President and
Congress know that there is a
war on, and that we need ma
tional unity to win the war?
Then, too, there is this end
less squabble between labor
and capital. Somebody ought
to bash some heads together
and straighten these fellows
out. Don't they know that it's
Hitler we're fighting not
each other?
So goes the song of the ma
tional unitarians. It goes on
all hours of the day and far
into the night. The press and
the radio resound with it. We
have it served to us hot and
cold. three times day, and
l.. between meals.
WE ARE FOR 1T
Okay, national unity is a
fine thing. We are for it. We
know that the total efforts of
a majority of the American
people is necessary to win this
war.
But somehow, in spite of our
belief in national unity, we
just cannot bend down low
enough to put our arms
around the shoulders of a
snake in the grass.
There you go again, the ma
tional unitarians shout at us.
Calling people snakes! It's no
wonder we can't achieve ma
tional unity. That's the kind
of talk that makes Hitler
happy. Americans calling eacn
other nasty names! That's no
way to work for national
unity.
All right, national unitari-
ans, you asked for it! We still
say we cannot bend down low
enough to put our arms around
the shoulders of a snake in the
grass. And here are the rea-
sons why:
SNAKES IN DISGUISE
In the first place, let's call
a snake-in-the- grass a snake
in-the- grass.
We do have snakes in-the-
grass disguised as Democrats
fighting on our side in this
war. They are the type of
phony patriot who believe in
killing Japs and Germans, but
who balks at the notion of
smashing Fascism.
1t is these phoney patriots,
or snakes-in-the-grass dis
guised as Democrats, who are
soiling the sheets while they
share our bed in the demo-
cratic camp. They want to win
the war, yes, but on their own
terms.
They want to smash the la
Dor unions in America, be-
cause their idea of freedom is
a system under which capital
is privileged to fatten itself at
the expense of the workers.
They want to keep the poll
tax in the South, and they
do not want the soldiers to
vote in 1914.
They want the low income
folks to pay the bulk of the
taxes, and they want business
to 60 on piling up profits out
of the war effort.
SNUGGLE WITH FRANCO
These same phoney patriots
insist that America should
snuggle up to Franco and play
ball with Badoglio. In short,
they don't care two boots
about fighting Fascism; on the
contrary, they are willing to
promote Fascism at home
while they pretend to fight it
abroad.
When these jerks talk about
national unity, what they
mean is that they want labor
and other democratic forces to
lay down and let the snake
in-the-grass smash the unions,
so that the plutocrats can
have it all their own way.
Well, you can't expect a un-
ionist to put his arm around
the shoulders of a snake in
the-grass who is all primed to
bite the union on the ankle.
And you can't expect a demo-
crat to go to bed with poll
taxer who doesn't believe in
letting the people vote.
We will only achieve real
and democratic national unity
when we chase the snakes-in-
the-grass out of our garden in
Americas back yard.
letter to the Journal calls for
a labor party. He would be
willing to give up his allegi-
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