The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-17
Fair Enough

r ar Enough
Editors Note.-The Star and the News accept no
responsibility for personal views Of Mr.. P1gler
and often disagree with them much many Of
his readers. His articles the good purpose Of
making people think.
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
NEW YORK, Aug. 16-The national propa-
ganda bureau of the CLIO has sent out for cir
culation among the American fighters copy
of long letter, written by James B. Carey,
the SecretaryTreasurer of CLIO, to his brother,
Joe, member of the Nays Seabees, serving
in the South Pacific.
This is propaganda letter attempting to
defend the war record of the union movement,
although that record includes more than ten
thousand strikes and, at present, is respon-
sible for a shortage of big tires for artillery.
bombers and heavy vehicles in the invasion OF
France. 1t contains great plug for Mr.. Carey,
himself, who is highly ambitious and often
advertises his personal chastity and family
felicity, as though the nation owed him
medal for that. And it gets in fine tribute
to Mrs. R. as that great and gracious lady,
by the tortuous process of associating her
name with loathesome rumor concerning the
Marines of Gaudalcanal and then generating
her in tone of indignant chivalry.
No such runor had appreciate circulation
at home but the CLIO is clever and proceeds to
circulate it all over the armed forces of the
United States for the sole purpose of building
up an opportunity to deny that the great and
gracious lady, ever said any such thing. I
receive just about all the propaganda there is
going these days and never read this one
until I saw it in Carey's letter. Knowing their
ways, my guess is that the communists them
selves invented the dirty SANDER, then attrib-
uted it to Mrs. R. and then followed through
with this fine, vehement passage of Carey's in
tended to persuade the Marines that someone
is anti-Roosevelt circulated hdeous lie
about the Marines, just to make them sore at
the great and gracious lady,"
Truth Possible
My idea here is to cause counter propa ganda
to be sent out to the troops everywhere that
Carey's letter and other monographs of the
same kind can do If Carey's letter goes up
on bulletin board from hand to hand, it's
antidote reach the same readers and let
them know the facts which Carey concealed.
Even without such propaganda organization
as the CLIO maintains, the millions of ndvid-
uas who read the newspapers could get the
truth to the troops by sending them clippings
such as this.
The soldier who has been away two three
years, may not detect the tricks in Carey'sI
statement to his brother Joe, whom he does
motion of his own political ambitions, safe here
at home.
For example, Carey writes Joe a lot of
really splendid statistics about our war work
production and then says, '85 per cent of the
equipment was produced by workers covered
by collective bargaining contracts with
unions
The trick here IL that the unions deserved
no credit for that production. 1t was produced
by American working men and women, mil
lions of whom were forced to join the unions
against their will. And the troops ought toI
know that many other Americans who wanted
to work in the factories were locked out
and couldn't work because they wouldn't join
the unions and contribute to Roosevelts fourth
term campaign fund. So the weapons which
they would have produced were not made. The
truth is that the unions actually have decreas-
ed production which would have been much
greater but for their showdown rules. Some
unions have limits on each persons daily pro-
duction so low that they finish their work an
hour or 80 minutes before quitting time and
loaf until the bell rings.
For every copy of Carey's letter and of
other writs like it, the troops deserve an op-
portunity to read that the unions are Roose-
velts political auxiliaries and that all these
restrictions are imposed with his consent and
by his aid. In return, the unions are collect
ing thousands of millions of dollars subject to
no accounting and are spending as much as
they care to for his fourth term.
Carey tells his brother Joe, that sinister
characters are trying to create among the
troops a bitterness against labor at home. This
is another familiar trick and the troops might
fall for it, If it is not explained that all pro-
fesslonal unioneers falsely use labor" as a
synonym for unions. There certainly is great
bitterness against unions among the troops,
and on the home front as well, but no bitter
ness against labor. On the contrary, labor,
itself, is growing bitter against the unions.
That is why Carey and the CLIO are trying to
take the heat off by sending out such propa-
ganda They afraid of what the troops
and labor will do to the union takers after
the war.
so THFY SAY