The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-22

Caux for the c. I. o. Both have of- fices in Washington, both used to be newspapermen themselves, both are | well and favorably known to the minions of the capitalist press both are nice guys. They are even 1 friends, and collaborate on many joint labor publicity stunts. Also both write columns for their house ! organs-pardon, labor newspapers. 1 If there is anything to this line that only the labor press tells the truth, you would therefore expect to find the pure truth, the unvar- n1shed truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in the writ ings of these two columnistS. On this assumption, we shift you now to our listening post in the Ameri- can Federation of Labor News Serv- ice.
 PEARLS FROM PEARL
 The next words you read will be 8 selection from the column, Fac ing the Facts With Philip Pearl" MT. Peafl:
 No matter how clear, consistent and fortnight the policies of the American Federation of Labor may be, the Communist brain trusters in the c. I. O. and their brothers in intellectual pansyism on the Daily Worker find no difficulty in distort- ing and misinterpreting them.
 That's no trick at all for these boys for they have been trained in school of mental prestidigitation which can denounce the war one day as a sordid imperialistic strug- gle and embrace the cause of the United Nations next day as holy i crusade for freedom.
 With the same magic, the c. I. O. Communists manage to slap the ,, polltaxers in the south with one hand and grasp the paw of Frank Hague with the other.
 Caught right in the midst of villifying the Badoglio regime in Italy by Stalin's sudden recognition of that regime, the c. I. O. Com munists with reptilian ease, squirm- l ed out of the hole and found com- plete justification for Soviet Rus Sia'S action.
 How such completely unprin- cipled and thoroughly hypocritical puppets of Moscow can ever hope to turn the workers of this country against the American Federation of Labor, is beyond us.''
 That, ladies and gentlemen, was MT. Philip Pearl of the A. F. of L. SAYINGS BY DE CAUX
 We shift you now to the c. I. o. Union News Service. The next words you read will be selection from the column. Looking Ahead" by Len De Caux. MT. De Caux::
 "This column has always been kind to misunderstood A. F. of L. leaders.
 We know that brainless bluster, pigheadedness, emotional tantrums and apparently aimless malice are often symptoms of some psycholog- ical maladjustment.
 We can appreciate the inferiority complex that must develop in those who vainly seek to complete with such a vigorous and modern move ment as the c. I. o. =.
 Most of the aging hierachy of the A. F. of L. executive council is as much out of step with its own rank and file as it is with the times.
 "The scurrilous abuse of the c. I. O., the disruptive attacks on labor unity, the Reviewing to reaction that mark so many statements is- sued in the name of the A. F. of L. represent that movement about as much as Hitler represents the Amer ican people"
 Ladies and gentlemen, you have just read two examples of fearless, honest journalism as practiced by the labor prSe so Yaur.e?cinn. GRE, the labor press. You are urged to be- lieve every word of 1t. because labor newspapers say they don't print anything that isn't SO.