Evening star., 1944-06-02

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entity lack the courage to do SO.
However if some way is not found
to bring the facts home to the
Nation as a whole, it may wake uI
next year to find a form of govern
ment riveted upon it wholly foreign
to the American idea and entirely
unpalatable to the American taste.
The essence of this issue is wheth-
er the. people of the United States
are ready to have the country run
by the radical bosses of one labor
faction-to wit, the CIO. That is
really the question.
This Is no partisan exaggeration
1t is simple statement of fact
which neither the war nor the ad-
ministration propagandists should
be allowed to obscure.
Evidence of Domination.
Evidence that CIO domination of
the next administration is bound up
in the success of the Roosevelt
fourth-term attempt is sufficient to
convince almost any detached OBJ
server. AS a matter of fact, few
would deny that the CIO has highly
favored this administration in the
past eight years.
The point is that under existing
conditions another Roosevelt re-
election will enhance its power far
beyond any previous conception
will, in fact, place it in a controlling
position.
Before stating the case, it is worth
recalling that since its inception in
1885 Mr.. Roosevelt and the CIO
have consistently operated as a
political unit.
From the sit-doWn strikes of his
first administration on up to the
recent national service proposal
which, though he recommended it
on the insistence of his military
heads, he has allowed to languish
following CIO opposition, there has
been no public question upon which
they have been divided. The CIO
supports the President on every do
mestic policy; the President sup
ports the CIO on all labor matters.
Again and again, since the war
began, he has complimented the
CIO upon its magnificent record"
at a time when many war contracts
were being held up by CIO strikes,
and the CIO has exuded fulsome
eulogies of Mr.. Roosevelt's manage
ment both abroad and at home.
The link between the CIO and Mr..
Roosevelt is strong beyond dispute.
1t has existed for more than eight
years and has been mutually ben
ef1cial. Mrs. Roosevelt is a mem
Der of the CIO, and it was the CIO
which Attorney General Biddle
meant when he proclaimed the New
Deal "a political party tied in with
the labor movement under an able
political leader" .
He certainly did not mean the
AFL, which does not indorse can
didates and contains many Repub-
means opposed to the fourth term.
1t is the CIO, with which the tie
up" was made before the 1886 cleo
ttlon ana. except in 1910, when Mr..
Lewis broke personally with Mr.
Roosevelt, but failed to carry his
following into the Willkie camp
there has been nothing to mar the
complete political cooperation.
In the Light of the Record.
To appreciate its true significance
the present situation must be viewed
IN the light of the above record
The facts about the 1914 campaign
TO re-elect Mr.. Roosevelt are clear
The fourth-term movements was
inaugurated by the CIO leaders anc
IS being managed by them. The
demand for his reelection has come
from them, and their unions, claim
ing 100000 members, have beer
unanimous in his Endorsement,
A fund, the lowest estimate Of
which Is s750,000, has been raised
for the preconvention work and the
active agency is known as the Com.
mittee On Political Action. 1t il
headed by two former members O.