The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-15

with them as much as many of his read
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of making people thlnk.)
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
(Copyright 1914, by King Features Syndicate)
| NEW YORK-In the closing hours of the
presidential campaign, New York political
parasite calling itself the Liberal Party sent
telegram to Tom Dewey, accusing John
Bricker, his rllnning-mate, of cruelty and cal
lousness in a speech about the colony OF 1000
European refugees at Oswego, NJ Y. This
party is European not American, and is more
concerned over privileges for the foreign
born than with the rights of native Americans
and decency in government.
! The telegram was signed by one Alex Rose.
of the lawmakers union, who is very pushful
in the Roosevelt adherence and in the political
exploitation of the hatreds, superstitions and
| fears Of the Immigrant colonies in the big
eastern cities.
| Last year, Rose was one of those who Sc
lected Matthew M. Levy a candidate for
| the New York Supreme court on the ground
that Levy was friend of labor and will
60 into that to give you line on this individual
who had the effrontery to ask Dewey to le-
pudiate a good American against whom the
worst charge OF the opposition was that he
| was honest
| The regular, Tamnany candidate for the
Supreme court in that election was Thomas
Aurelio a typical, lowgrade machine politi-
clan and lawyer, similar in many ways to
Senator Robert Wagner, the great iberal''
of the New Deal.
Shortly before election, Frank Hogan, the
district attorney and Dewey's successor in that
office. showed up a connection between Au-
relic and some underworld gangsters and quite
a scandal ensued. Rose moved in quickly to
make political capital for thing called the
! American Labor Party which never was Amer
lean and never has represented labor, but
only group of conspiratorial manipulators
of the foreignborn element in the New York
garment and millinery trades.
| Rose and his associates went into the tradi-
tional smokefilled room and came out with
Levy as their candidate.
| Some time later, Sidney Hillman Earl Brow
der and communists of the New York council
Of the CLIO captured the niscalled American
Labor Party so Rose and some Others who
had been outsmarted in the contest, formed
this new outfit, still continental conspiracy,
called the Liberal Party They then abused
Hillman for trading with the communists and
repudiated their own old American Labor Par
ty but nevertheless went right along with
Roosevelt Hillman and the communists to-
ward their common, European political OBJ
jectives.
In offering Levy as ''friend of labor Rose
and this led to the discovery that Levy had
engaged in equally fragrant association vita
underworld gangsters, and betrayers of labor,
at that. Moreover Levy had picked up a ire
mendous profit.
Levy had been counsel for Local 306 of the
dirty racket known as the Movie and Theatri-
cal Workers union from Aug. l, 1885 to Dec
81, 1941, including the period of the most
corrupt antilabor operations of those two viii
famous union corruptioneerS, George Browne
and Willie Bioff, except year when he
was on the bench. He got $500 a month for
a service to labor which took only part
Of his time and drew $97, 900. Moreover this
selfless servant of that faceless political no
nentity, the common man, presented further
bill to the union after he ceased to be counsel
and refused to hand over its papers until he
was paid $4,000 additional. During most of
the period of Levys service with 306 it was
common knowledge that Browne and BioH
were filthy, underworld vermin, and it was
absolute knowledge that Bioff was a convicted
brothelkeeper and was in jail when, in June,
1910, Levy went to the convention of the racket
and sang Browns praises as a labor lead
err
At the same convention, Browne euloglzed
Bioff as martyr suffering persecution and
Levy took no exception to this, either, al
though he knew Bioff was Brownies personal
agent and, by that time, Hollywood and New
In the election, the voters compared the
two associates of gangsters and preferred ALL
relic.
This gives you line on Rose SO now let
us consider what Bricker said about the
Oswego camp, and the facts of the case
Bricker said Roosevelt deceived Congress
and the people when he announced that the
1000 refugees would be ''predominately'' Wo-
men and children. They were not ana NOBODY
who was watching the plot ever expected that
women and children would predominant. Ihere
were several hundred adult males among them
and they were not toilers but "inteLectuals'
After much secrecy, the Immigration bureau
revealed the true figures which showed tnat
Roosevelt had told Congress falsehooo.
Anyway, he had no right to admit any OF
these people because Congress hac specIlcsl-
ly refused to suspend the immigration laws
for him. Mr. Biddle the Attorney General,
requested that suspension and gave several
false and obviously dishonest reasons Out ooii-
gress suspected plot to let IN all the cum con,
munists of Europe and turned him down cola;
After that, Roosevelt let IN this oa'cn anu
Just told Congress about 1t.
Bricker didn't say all this but 40 anu
it is all true, and the covering OF women
and children was tine usual appear 10 Aiiieii-
can sympathy. would b.,,.
However. if he had said it, that would nave
been his right as CONSCIENTIOUS n I4 ~ a..
candidate for office and reminder that oul
country belongs to us ana moi " SVeAS Vic