Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-14

FAIR
ENOUGH
-ByWestbrook
Pegler

TIES MONIES, Ia. Sept. 10
IL Near the end of his speech
on organization for peace at
Louisville Tom Dewey again in
sisted on including domestic al
fairs in the campaign, arguing
that a leadership which DELHI
erately sets group against group
must fail at home and conse-
quently abroad.
II Is on this point OF class
hatred that i present here a
proposal from an organ devoted
10 the CIO and its Political
Action Committee that this
country's IL million fighting
men be organized by the Go,
and turned against the West
Point and Annapolis officers.
This program was set forth in
the liberal press of Chester, Pa,
a CIO-PAC propaganda paper,
in It's issue OF June -.
THE suggestion begins with a
l. preamble attempting TO re-
pudiate the record of strikes IN
the war industries and earlier
on the war construction prof.
ects which as recent union
propaganda shows has created
serious resentment among men
overseas.
The recent trip TO France of
political agents of both the Go
and AFL TO placate the troops
was evidence of the concern OF
these subsidiaries Of Mr.. RooSe-
Velt'S party over the temper OF
the troops on this subject,
Their mission was. of course,
political, arranged with an eye
to the soldier vote.
Nobody went along TO chal-
lenge their broad denials OF the
strike record and of the inila-
tionary overtime wage scales.
To a degree. however refuta-
tion was not necessary for many
of the men overseas served a
long time at home and by their
own observation were able 20
stick 10 their opinions.
And they may have access 10
the recent defense of the mine
workers by John L. Lewis, who
surely will not be denied the
title of union leader in which
he wrote that countless strikes.
many for reasons shocking in
their essential triviality have
disrupted and are disrupting the
nations war effort but neither
leaders nor strikers have been
named or pilloried" by the
Roosevelt regime.
The CTS may have access
also to Lewis further state
ment that other defense in
dustries were paying two and
three times miners wages to
inexperienced boys and girls
IN ITS proposal TO organize
L the fighting men and turn
them against the officers of the
regular army and navy the
liberal press observes that "the
soldiers are getting reaction
ary' and declares that the West
Point and Annapolis men along
with the daily press and the
National Association of Manu-
facturers ARE deliberately mis-
leading" them.
These officers and the others
named ARE determined 10 make
the returning veteran A man
who hates unions. deSpiseS
workers that organize and be-
lieves that every one but indus
trialists Is having one hell of
good time
/ BELIEVE this is the ttst
Il open attack by any union
publication on the officers Of
the regular army and navy as
military caste ariStocratS.
charge of which Mr. Bid1le
might take a serious view f il
came from other sources than
the Go front and the first sesi-
Gus proposal TO Organize the
fighting forces into a political
group ito see that the right
man is elected"
At the moment it is not a
serious threat to discipline, but
the Go itself was a creation
of the New Deal party which
developed into a political auxili-
airy embracing millions of in
voluntary members and mere
innovation has been no barrier
to radical steps in the past.
For the present il is sufficient
to point out that here is nate
full propaganda against the
regular officers and against
discipline in the fighting force
and that II comes not from
Dewey's following, but from the
adherentS of one who, as
Dewey suggests. has set group
against group at home.
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