Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-03
FAIR
ENOUGH
estbrook
Peeler

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thousand men and women and
some Whitcomb Riley types Of
Midwestern boys and girls,
most of them carrying small
political placards on sticks. Tom
Dewey minated on his arrival
in Springfield that his journey
from New York TO st. Louis for
a conference of 26 Republican
governors was, in TACT, CAM
paign trip.
He said he and Gov. Dwight
Green of Illinois, who met him
at the railroad station, were en-
gagged in great campaign, a
continuation eEtAeif- war-on
gangsters in which both took
part Ia years ago.
This was a reference 10 Green's
prosecution of AL Capone which
condemned Capone 10 long, PEN
sive years in Alcatraz and 10
continuing oblivion in Miami,
and his own attacks in New
York on The underworld affI-
ance of Tammany and the
racketeerS of unlonlsm.
Dewey's precise mind appar-
emily has II that campaign
doesn't begin until the nominee
actually starts throwing volleys
of lefts and rights 10 the face
and body in prepared speeches.
In that sense, he Is still doing
calisthenlcS and working out on
the heavy bag in the gym. for
he refused 10 elaborate on his
reference 10 the continuing war
on gangSters just now.
THE mention of gangSters and
L the continuation of the old
war against them refers 10 the
-fegaEprutectorate which
maintained for highway robbers
of the criminal underworld Of
unionism, when Congress tried
TO pass laws against union
racketeering. and 10 the late
Lepke Buchaltcr. whose field Of
operations was that section of
the New York needle trades
dominated by Sidney Hillman.
Mr. Hillman. The boss of the
CIO-CommuniSt Political Action
Committee. is politically and
personally in Roosevelt COM
pany, and Dewey is thoroughly
acquainted with the career and
associations of Lepke. whom he
once prosecuted for extortion,
and with IIillman. -
And ne has neither awe Of
nor illusions about Roosevelt as
machine politician
Mr.. Roosevelt Will not come
into the ring as commander IN
chief in this phase Of the cam
paign but as one who befriended
the opprcSsorS and dictators Of
the labor movement on a quid
pro dlio understanding which
reduced labor to helplessness.
DEWEY S themes apparently
~ will be jobs under private
enterprise when peace comes. as
distinguished from public en-
ployment Al dole wages. and
tho exploitation Of tho worker
by subsidiaries Of Rooseyelts
party through raCketeers and
mar,pulatorS In the Unions.
He has returned IN the
thought first expressed IN his
acceptance speech IN Chicago.
that until the war created mil
lions OF Jobs nj public expense.
RooSevelt'S only solution for the
unemployment of i 10000. 600
workers had heen government
make-work projects
Wendell Wllkie refused The
issue four years ago hi, this
year. for the first time. The
subject Of real Jobs and law
dbl'liIE blii'HiiNill' Hli l'i wv"
benefit Of labor. itself, IS COM
ing 70 challenge.
Frank Simpson. Negro en-
ployed in the governor office
IN Albany. is member OF
Dcwey's staff on this trip As
the party drove 10 Abraham
LincolnS tomb. nc remarked
gravely that this pilgrimage
stirred in HIM feelings which he
could not well express.
HIS grandfather came north
ii with Gen. Sheridan and be-
came a messenger IN the court
or appeals. Frank father sac-
ceeded him
The grandfather had no edu-
cation. but both the son and
the grandson went through
Public School No. s in Albany
High School and now Franks
own daughter has followed the
same COurSp