Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-28

FAIR
ENOUGH
BY Westbroo.~
Pegler

THE endorsement of Franklin
L d. Roosevelt for a fourth
term by the state convention Of
the New York Federation of
Labor is an appropriate act OF
homage and appreciation by an
organization heavily infested
with public enemies, to its pa
tron and protector.
1t is, at the same time,
delicate, if unintentional, COM
pliment to Tom Dewey who. In
his career as a prosecutor in
New York, sent to prison q
number of prime dignitaries Of
this licensed racket.
Any other action would have
been a shocking violation OF the
underworld code. and an undo.
served smear against a man,
who, like Roosevelt, well knows
the scriminal characters and
methods OF predatory unionism
but. unlike Roosevelt, and to
his honor. has never joined in
their oppression OF the worker
or their outrages against the
whole public interest.
TO IGNORE or try to dignity
L the fact that. for II years
the administration has been q
helpful partner in the appalling
brutalities operated by the
American Federation OF Labor,
is TO serve the public i'll.
The relationship has been
shown in the plainest detail and.
from early indignation and de-
NAL, all parties to the conspir.
acy have turned to defiant
acknowledgment.
The fact that the presidency
of the last relatively free grea' =
nation on earth is involved i
this business cannot be reme-
died by popular refusal to be-
lieve il.
To be sure. decent citizens,
including millions Of workers
whom Roosevelt has delivered
over bodily 10 his crooked part
ners. do wish in their hearts
that the highest office within
their gift has not been so de-
based.
But the remedy is not to cry
"iese ma jeste" AZ the very truth,
itself, but 10 throw out of Office
the regime which has so de-
bauched free government.
DOOSEVELTS supreme court
IL has had the cynical effront.
cry TO hold. in sonorous Ian.
guage. that his cohorts in these
rackets have right TO bear
false witness. that is 10 Islander
and injure by deliberate lies,
innocent members Of the com.
munity.
II has held that highway rob-
berry is special right of his
partners in the exploitation Of
the people.
His department Of Justice has
violated its trust by its toler-
ance OF a national system OF
loot. operated in many ways
and in all communities and his
shameless funkeys on Capitol
Hill, by tricky strategems In
committees, have frustrated all
proposals TO abate the menace.
The rogue's gallery Of crirni-
nails exposed by private effort
and initiative, mainly that OF
American Journalism. contains
the portraits Of our presidents Of
national unions Of the American
Federation of Labor and of one
member of its executive council,
the national governing body.
II contains pictures of twf I
national treasurers and OF in.
Vulnerable regional and local
criminals.
It's general counsel, Joseph
Padway the guide and intimate
friend Of William Green. the
president, Will, posturing be-
fore Congress and state legisla-
lures as friend Of labor, has
taken the money of union crooks
so foul that not even admins
tration patronage could save
them from prison.
And Roosevelt, nevertheless.
sent Padway TO England a year
ago as a spokesman of American
labor. a gesture deliberately in
sulting to American and British
labor.
TNHE basic wrong, the most de-
L fiant and tragic offense
against the freedom of the
American worker has been
Roosevelt's protection of the
system which makes il possible
for union racketeers to shake
down both workers for jobs and
employers for protection against
strikes called. not by any vote
Of the workers, but by order Of
the criminals.
Dictatorships have arisen, no
tably in the Pacific northwest
where the transfers union. one
OF Roosevelt's favorites, estab.
lished a working model of the
Hitlerian scourge and men have
been beaten and killed, terror.
lied and starved, all for the lack
of few fundamentally decent
laws to restrict the powers Of
the goons.
That the New York State or.
ganization of this vicious system
endorsed for a fourth term the
one man who stands between IL
and the public interest, there
fore is not en- ppIich nowS N