The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-02
By wEsTBROOK PEGLER

ny WGS4DNOOA AI0AGN
NEW YORK,-Because / believe it was a
historic speech which for the first time in the
Senate turned the battle between the nation
and the subgovernrnent of unionism, would
like to quote today from an address by Sena-
tor Josiah w. Bailey of North Carolina. Mr..
Bailey spoke in favor of the clause requiring
unions and certain other organizations to file
international income tax returns. Largely as
a result of his address, the proposal carried,
the first victory over union political power yet
recorded in the upper house.
We have given the labor organizations OF
America the power to tax he said. We
may call it what we please but the unions
have the power to tax. They can tax the
workers and indirectly the American people
They can not only fix the dues but we have
put the workers in their hands. We collect
their dues in great many instances by what
is called the check-off. We do not limit the
dues. We do not know what the dues are
We give them ad lib opportunity to charge
the workers all that the traffic will bear anc
we raise no question. Yet when we do under
take to get little information, We are resist
ed in the name of all the cemeteries on earth
in the name Of the co-ops, mutual societies
and burial organizations and in the name Of
the difficulty of compiling returns in coun
try where practically every man is required
to file return. Every soldier, every taxpayer
mas TO lie returns ana Cnere are some ~
million of them.
Cemeteries and the other sorts of organiZa
tons to which Senator Bailey referred were
included in the clause only for the purpose Of
forefending charges that it was discriminatory
against unions. Mr.. Bailey said, however, that
he would be willing to eliminate all the others
and apply its provisions to unions alone.
But now we begin to weep because a few
labor organizations having the taxing power
L. H., H. f@
whether man can work or not and on what
conditions are involved. We gave that power
and it is our duty to see that it is not
abused. There is no other power which car
see to it except ourselves.
The workers cannot; they are helpless.
There was an attempt to build a military
training camp in North Carolina. There was
great cutlery about the shortage of man
power The farmers said, we will hammer
and we will saw Then the labor agitator
stood at the door and said, you do not ham
mer and you do not saw until you pay us a
tax of $25 or $780, Yet some are unwilling
to have us find out about it.
1--WE have given the labor organizations sc
much power that this government lseH is II
jeopardy. People might say that was the Ian
guage of rhetoric and exaggeration It is not
"Only a few days ago there was not
member of the Senate who knew Wnethel
there would be transportation to the ports FOL
the arms and ammunition the clothing ane
the food, for our fighting men on the battle
fronts Just before that there was not mar
who knew whether the American people Woule
be made to freeze this year at the instance
of that modern Catiline, unmatched by any
Cicero so far. He could say close the tur
naces' and the furnaces closed, close tne
hearths' and the hearths closed or close the
crates in your homes and stores Shut dowr
the war effort and present our country nakec
in the presence of its enemies. Ana we &c
not dare ask him what he is doing with the
fees and dues he collects from the men who
stupidity follow him.
"A few days ago I received politica
primer issued by the CLIO. 1t tells us how te
get delegates and acquire local political pow
or with view to taking charge of this coun
trv. They are educating men not to serve the
United States but the CLIO in elections. Sidne,
Hillnnan has gone forth, dividing the country
into IL regions, organized wholly for the pur
pose of group power politics, not for the ma
tional interest, not for the war effort, the Dem
ocratic party, the Republican party but io1
the labor organizations, the labor power, the
group power
Senators, nothing could be more serious
for this country. We gave them the power t.