The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
BY WESTBEOOK PEGLER

NEW YORK.-My great, loving heart bleeds
for the sad and disillusioned right wing of
the late so.called American Labor Party of
New York, whose bosses, with mixed feelings
of sorrow, anger and Illustration have found
it necessary to abandon their own brat.
write with the sympathetic understanding of
one who has suffered, for a similar reason,
namely the invasion of the communists and
their fellow-travelers, caused me to resign
from the Newspaper Guild several years ago;
in which case, however, number of these
same idealists scolded me as batter of reds
and labor and insisted that the thing to have
done was to stay in there and try to capture
the guild from the bolos. And moreover, they
said, the term fellow traveller was vague and
insincere and just label which we reaction
aries used to discredit all with whom we dis
agreed.
Now, however, the machine politicians of
the ALPS right wing, whip-sawed and beaten
by their own methods at their own sport of
manipulating minorities to the Illustration of
majorities, have turned on their old friend
Sidney Hillman, calling him stooge for Earl
BroWder, and, as Al Smith would say, have
taken walk Mr.. Hillnan collaborated with
Browder and with Vito Marcantonio, the pro-
tege of Forello LaGuarda, and others of
the same hue and his late colleagues have
issued manifestoes repudating him out loud
AL IIllS amounts 10 IOC llluCll IllOle Illdll d
personal rivalry between Mr.. Hillman and
David Dubinsky, presidents of the two great
unions of toilers on apparel for gents and
ladies, who are much alike in many ways
but hate each others tripes for reasons which
any fair-mnded third party could easily per-
ceive with the naked eye and indorse without
reserve Squirming with the machine parlia-
raentarian's itch for power and both skilled
in the art of exploiting the immigrant vote,
Joo
the millions of Americans of the state and
city of New York and next November, even
to WELD the balance in the election OF the
next president of the United States.
Hillrnan the bag-man of the CLOS 1914
slush fund and a facie collaboratonist, threw
in with the communists and by means so
devious that I cannot pretend to understand
much less explain them, took the so-called
party away from Dubinsky Dubinskys dis
tress, heart-rending though it be, is relieved
by touches of humor here and there, how
ever as when one of the rightwing wrlts of
reputation says that the ALP was organized
to provide home for liberals and laborites
free from the sordid mechanics OF the old
parties This naturally recalls his own fac
TONS selection of Judge Matt Levy as can
ddate for the Supreme court a lew months
ago, a choice conducted in the familiar at
mosphere of the old fashioned smoke filled
room. which proved unwise when the most
casual investigation showed that this friend
of labor had, in fact, made very profitable
thing of this friendship as attorney for local
of the Browne and Bioff mob in New York
and on certain occasion had spoken highly
of brother Browne, a dirty racketeer with no
standing in labor and figure of shocking
|notoriety at the time.
The parting of the Hillmans and the Du-
binskys may serve unintended purpose in
the interests of decency IN politics and the
labor movement, however, for, in their rage
the bosses of both factions are waving their
arms and. in a wide range of continental
dialects are now telling, in the voice of in
side authority, plain truths about one another
which long have been known to most of the
public but always were denied before. Their
MANY publications have long been my most