Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-15
FAIR
ENOUGH
BY Westbrook
Peglea

itself the Liberal party sent .
telegram to Tom Dewey. accus.
ing John Bricker, his running
mate, of cruelty and callous.
ness in a speech about the COLI
ony of 1000 European refugees
at Oswego, N. Y.
This party II European. not
American, and Is more con-
cerned over privileges for the
foreign born than with the
rights of native Americans and
decency in government.
The telegram was signed by
one Alex Rose Of the Hatmak-
ers' Union.
Last year Rose was one Of
those who selected Matthew M.
Levy as a candidate for the
New York Supreme Court on
the ground that Levy was .
friend OF labor"
The regular Tammany candi.
date for the supreme court in
that election was Thomas Aurs.
lilo, a typical. low grade mar
chine politician and lawyer.
similar in many ways to Sena.
tor Robert Wagner, the great
liberal of the New Deal.
CHORTLY before election
- Frank Hogan. the district
attorney and Dewey's successoe
in that office. showed up . con.
nection between Aurelio and
some underworld gangsterS and
quite q scandal enSued-
Rose moved In quickly %
make political capital for q
thing called the American
Labor Party which never was
American and never has repre-
sented labor. r
Rose and his associates wer
into the traditional smoke-hlled
room and came out with Levy
as their candidate.
Some time later. Sidney HID.
man. Earl Browder and Com.
munists of the New York coun.
Gil of the Go captured the mis-
called American Labor Party 80
Rose and some others, who had
been out-smarted in the con.
test, formed this new outf1t,
still a continental conspiracy,
called the Liberal Party.
They then abused Hillman
for trading with the COM
munists and repudiated their
own American Labor Party but
nevertheless went right along
with Roosevelt, Hillman and
the Communists toward their
common. European political OBJ
jectives.
In offering Levy as a friend
OF Labor" Rose naturally in
vted inspe of Levys
record and this led to the dis
covery that Levy had engaged
in equally fragrant association
with underworld gangsters, and
betrayers of labor, at that.
Moreover Levy had picked up .
tremendous profit.
I EVY had been counsel for
IL Local BOG OF the dirty
racket known as the Movie and
Theatrical Workers Union from
Aug. /. 1895 TO Dec. 81, 1871.
including the period OF the most
corrupt anti-labor operations OF
those two villainous union cor
ruptioneers. George Browne and
Willie Bioff. except one year
when he was on the bench. He
got 81. 500 a month for a "serv-
ice OF labor" which took only
part of his time and drew
S97 900.
During most Of the period O.
Levy's service with BOG il W
common knowledge that Browne
and Bioff were filthy, UNDER
world vermin, and il was abso-
lutte knowledge that Bioff was a
convicted brothel keeper and
was in Jail when. in June, 1910.
Levy went to the convention Of
the racket and sang Brownies
praises as a labor leader"
At the same conve Ion,
Browne eulogized Bioif as q
martyr suffering persecution.
In the election. the voters
compared the two associates Of
gangsters and preferred Aurelio.
TIIS gives you a line on Rose
L so now let us consider what
Bricker said about the Oswego
camp. and the facts of the case.
Bricker said Roosevelt de-
ceived Congress and the people
when he announced that the
1000 refugees would be pre-
dominantly' women and chill
dren. They were not and nobody
who was watching the plot ever
expected that women and chill
dren would predominant. There
were veral hundred males
among them and they were not
toilers but "intellectuals." After
much secrecy, the immigration
bureau revealed the true figures
which showed hat Roosevelt
had told Congress falsehood.
Anyway, he had no right to
admit any Of these people be-
cause Congress had specifically
refused to suspend the immigra.
ton laws for him.
Mr.. Biddle, the attorney gem
eral. requested that suspension
and gave several false and ob.
viously dishonest reasons but
Congress suspected a plot to let
In all the Communists OF Europe
and turned him down cold.
After that pDAez.1tx -