Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-02

by w estbrOOk
Peeler
DITTSBURGH, Aug. 2-Gov.
Tom Dewey came over here
in a special train from New
York with Mrs Dewey and a
lot of others, bound for the con-
ference, in ST. Louis, on
Wednesday and Thursday. of 70
Republican governors, including.
course himself and John
Bricker of Ohio.--
There are as reporters and
photographers along. Each pays
his own way and picks up his
own tabs for his meals and
drinks. and one who can speak
from experience will say that
political life is austere by COM
parison with travel on the world
series specials which in the pre-
war days, al any rate, were
luxurious and very gay.
MR.. DEWEY spent a large
A'A day meeting Pennsylvania
Republicans, including number
OF professional unioneers of the
opposition, or anti-CIO-Commu-
mist movement, and il appears
that the Republican party is
gathering rather substantial
tabor wing OF its own whose
speakers will cry up various
grudges against Mr.. Roosevelt.
These include charge that
he is an enemy of free labor be-
cause he has been partial 10 the
Go which, In turn, has become
a holding corporation for his
own Democratic party.
They are saying he created
this Go arrangement as
shrewd and deliberate plan
whereby the labor movement
would become a device for col
lectIng campaign funds TO keep
him in office with the eventual
intention 10 strip il OF its origi-
nal use and run II. himself. as a
party as Mussolinl ran the
FasclSts.
THlS fight will develop as the
campaign warns up and
should be very interesting be-
cause the professionals of union
politics all know one another OF
old having been allies in vari-
Gus kinds Of dirty work in the
past. and have plenty on each
other Unlike the machine poii-
ticlans of the conventional type.
they call each other crooks,
murderers, racketeerS and Con-
munists out loud when they get
going, instead OF keeping their
old business secrets 10 them
selves.
Mr. Dewey is in unique
position as q candidate because
he sent a lot of boss -racketeeFs
t. prison during his spell as dis
trict attorney and he knows the
background of many Of those
who are still AZ large, including
the relationship between the
union Of Sidney Hlllman. the
boss of Mr.. Big's CIO-Commu-
INST wing, and the late Mr..
Lepke of New York and his
team OF professional murdererS.
The conference of hot and
busy day included meetings with
businessmen and representatives
Of the servicemen and womens
organizations OF the last war
and this one.
Then. late in the afternoon,
the Deweys toed line in the
ballroom OF tho William Penn
Hotel and for an hour and 40
minutes, without a break, shook
nhandS with a passing line Of
4 isitorS, Republicans. they dared
'f6pe. who filed by at the rate
OF 40 minute.
This was serious physical
ordeal and Paul Lockwood. Mr.
Dewey's handyman. hurrie
downstairs after an hour of II
10 get them salt tablets.
TiiE DeweyS came through II
L with their right hands in good
shape. thanks 10 a trick which
now seems TO be common prop
erty among statesmen Of using
A quick. firm grab IN shaking
hands Hd-lettiag- sa-guicklA--
This gives the subject command
Of the situation, for he has
taken his hold and let go before
those emerge tlc, clear-eyed,
clean limbed, firm jawed. CO.
getting bone-crushers can take
the Initiative
The Deweys say How do
ynu do ?" How are you and
Nice TO see you, varying the
repertoire so that seldom are
two successive individuals piven