The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23
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editor. Note.-rh. Star and tn. New, .ee.p. no
responsibility for the personal views Of Mr. Parler
and often disagree with them much Is many Of
his readers His articles the good purpose Of
making pespIe think.
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright, 1914. King Features Syndicate. Inc
The National Labor Relations Act is good
and necessary law Tom Dewey said in his
Seattle speech. 1T acknowledges the trend
of our times"
Mr. Deweys first statement here is wrong
The Wagner Act is not good but vicious and
therefore certainly not necessary nor even toll
cradle in the view of anyone who speaks with
such hope and promise of the future
His second statement is correct. The Was-
ner Act does acknowledge the trend of our
times and that is just the trouble with it.
For the trend which it acknowledges and ac-
CELEBRATES is toward totalitarianism and Oh.
preston.
l would chance guess that Dewey worked
harder on this speech back in his rolling Of
flee at the rear of his campaign train in the
nights since we left Des Moines than on any
statement OF his position on any other issue.
The subject is dangerous because the new
deal propaganda has deceived even some of
the most conservative Americans as to the
true meaning Of the Wagner Act. I am will
ing to agree that a great majority of the
people in both parties regard this as "a good
and necessary law" Nevertheless they are
wrong and it is too late now to unconvnce
them before election day. Dewey, himself
may be honestly deceived, although that seems
unlikely, but if he is deceived now, short
experience as president must prove to him
that it is impossible ito bring genuine free
dom to the members of the labor movement
ana drlve out communists and racketeers as
long as the Wagner Act remains law &C.
knowledging ''the trend of our times"
Experience has shown in thousands of cases
that the Wagner Act precludes freedom in the
labor movement and fortifies the position Of
the communist and racketeer, ostensibly in.
tended to guarantee the workers right to
bargain collectively through their chosen
agents, it has compelled millions of men and
women to accept bargaining agents selected
Tor them by the Labor Relations Board without
consulting their preference or over riding
their preference. a minute but precious right
OF the human being and citizen w h ich is
ignored here, is the right not to join in COL
lectlve bargaining, or to reject the services
OF particular bargaining agent, ignored in
the case OF individual, it seems too petty for
consideration against the desires of the ninety
and nine. But multiply that individual by a
million and genuine freedom" is Knocked and
abolished
Under the terms. Interpretation and admin
racketeers enjoy absolute immunity from dis
qualification because they communists or
both. An avowed member of the communist
party stands on equal ground in his treach-
erous traitorism with a loyal American. Al
gangster with long criminal record cannot
be rejected because he is a crook, however
notorious. The CLIO is partial to communists
and, in the American Federation OF Labor,
William Green the president, and others high
in the favor of the Roosevelt government.
have flagrantly favored known criminals as
bargaining agents for men and women VINO
had no voice in their selection.
An honest employer devoted in his heart to
friendly and prosperous relations between IN
dustry and labor can be fined or even sent
to jail under the Wagner Act for advising
the workers in his employ that union boss
is communist or criminal. That is called
coercion. But, the communist or racketeer Is
not only permitted but officially encouraged
to coerce the workers. They may coerce py
organized ostracism, terrorism in union meet
ings, bombing, beating and murder and they
have done so throughout the life OF this law
without the slightest remonstrance from the
Labor Relations Board. In fact the board
has no right to demonstrate for senator ROD
ert Wagner doggedly saw to it that such IN
tinidation should not be forbidden IN that law
which Mr.. Dewey, Of all persons, now ap-
proves as good and necessary"
| In Seattle, where Dewey bowed to the pub
lie superstition and ignorance wrought by the
new deal propaganda, the Tearnsters Union
and many employers made deal. The EN-
blowers drive their employees into the union
and the union boss, in return protects the
employers interests and grants them privi-
leges. The union can fix prices on retail goods
and services, place embargoes on competitive
goods from other states by refusing to carry
them over the roads and keep down compe-
tition from rival merchants desiring to start
business by forbidding deliveries Of merchan-
disc to their doors. The degree of this regu-
lation very pleasant, no doubt, to the bust
ness man so favored is controlled only by
the favor of the union boss, not by the Wag-
ner Act from which he derives his power.
He is said to be wise and fair and faithful
to his lord but he might be succeeded by a
Willie Bioff under the same law.
In Portland and elsewhere, several nunoreo
thousand shipbuilders employed by enry
KAISER and paid out Of the peoples 1a@es'