The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-09

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accept no responsibility for the personal
views of Mr. Pegler, and often disagree
with them as much as many OF his read
ers. His articles serve the good purpose
u of making peorle THINK
By WEsTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright, 1916, by King Features Syndicate)
! SAN FRANCISCO, May 9-As Mr.. Church.
ill and Mr. Roosevelt were saying of the war
on the continent last August, this is the be-
ginning of the end of the reign OF the boss
unioneer including the communist as well as
the ordinary underworld leg-breaker and thief.
Should anyone get impatient in the next year
or so, like Churchill and Roosevelt I will
fearlessly denounce the home front for COM
placency but I really don't think this will
be necessary. I think we are across the un-
ioneers' Rhine now and that progress will be
steady and swift until we have liberated the
slave workers and presented them with an
| opportunity to form decent unions in which
the rights of the Individual will be protected,
elections will be free and fair and commu-
nists will be either legally barred from office
or so strongly discredited by the government
that the Americans will throw them out.
| Sidney Hillman's international SideshoW in
San Francisco during the conference of the
representatives of the governments on or
side of the war, has been spectacular flop
| At the time when the thing organized,
Mr.. Roosevelt was still President and Hill
man. of course, was very important fellow.
He had raised the money and his people had
boosted the vote out Of bed last year and,
without going into the legality of their meth
DDS again at this time, they busted off a
chair right by the boss's elbow. However,
they opposed Harry Truman for nomination
for the vice-presidency because Truman didn't
| speak their language and now they have dis.
covered that they don't speak his, either.
1t is impossible to believe that if Mr.. Roose.
welt had lived, Hillman, Murray and the de.
voted communist friends often recognized
by Mrs. Roosevelt and Henry Wallace. would
have been kept out of San Francisco with
their foreign friends, parked in the city OF
Oakland across the bay, and not even invited
to take over at least one session of the peace
conference for some yelling about democra.
cy, which, in their understanding, includes
the dictatorship of Joseph Stain. Oakland is
a very nice city but so is Newark, N. j.,
and Oakland is to San Francisco Newark
is to New York. These foreigners are not
dummies and they know that any outfit claim.
ing to represent American labor which can't
even find rooms for its guests in the same
town with the peace conference, much less
swing enough influence to get them a Of
fetal hearing and a fair mess of publicity
and practical Russian Tovarishes probably
are wondering when a firing squad is going
to call for the Messrs. Hillman and Murray
and iqridate them.
The reason for this humiliatng snub is not
merely the fact that Truman is free man
as far as Hillman and Murray are concerned.
A worse reason is that the so-called dele
! gates, in most cases, don't represent labor.
Most of them are just commissars Of dicta.
tors or parasites who got restless and in
quisitive, as Mrs. Roosevelt used to- and were
glad of chance to get free ride and
some American cigarettes and shoes. A fel
low who is an awful bum in his own country
may cut very interesting figure in a strange
land if his government gives him credentials
and he talks loud and fast. We know that
from experience with some Of the preposter
GUS alcoholics, slobs and high-bracket gigolos
whom the new deal selected to personify the
honor and dignity Of the United States ir
foreign capitals during the long alteration
How do you suppose Iran or Iraq, Abys
sinia or China, for example, selects a truly
representative spokesman of its working PEG
pie? Do they hold formal election by Sc
4 cret ballot or does some politician correspond
ing to our Senator Joe Guffey decide that one
of his boys would be the better for long
i journey and some rare viands and exotic del
Il icacies? One of the American communist
takers spoke of world-labor organization
representing sixty million organized toilers. L
we are not careful they will take up tina,
figure and beat Us over the ears with il
until we are dazed and unable to REMIND
ourselves that it is not supported by any
facts. 1t was thus with the figure OF sixty
million jobs which Roosevelt and Wallace
said, and the CLIO insists, will be"neces
sary for solvency, to say nothing of prosperi
ty in the United States after the war.
That many jobs would mean that almost
as many women as men would have to work
steadily and that the American children Of
the coming generation would be raised ir
state breeders. This would be fine with the
communists but the Americans have high
sales resistance to such innovations so lately
we have heard very little about the go mil
lion jobs.
The American unioneers obviously realize
that they are in bad trouble.
Hillman Murray and the communists have
prattled about unity in labor all over the
world while at home John L. Lewis OF the
mine workers and Robert Watt, of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, blow raspberries
at them, reminding the polyglots of Oakland
| that the CLIO, itself, is minority Of Ameri
can labor and a descriptive group OF dual
unionists, at that
Divided by professional, personal and pc.
: ltical hatreds and rivalries, deprived of their
latch key to the White House, and soon to
be challenged by Congress no longer under
orders from the executive branch, the union
: takers Of the United States are stumbling back
, in disorder now. And the next time the lower