The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-05
BY WESTBOOK PEGLER
Copyright, 1915, BY King Features SYN

Copyright, 1915, BY King Features SynicateD
NEW YORK, Surprising that some group
OF Americans not necessarily party Republi-
| cans but just non Roosevelt Americans
should decide to swipe the book of the CO.
Communist Political Action Committee d
organize along the same lines and use the
| same propaganda, but in reverse how would
we 60 about it?
Well, first the name of our organization has
got to have the word American or "Ameri-
ca in it, These words were rather badly
soiled by the hundred per centers of the Ku
Klux Khan in the years just after the other
war but the new generation doesn't remem-
Der that and the more the young fighting
people see of Europe and Britain and the rest
of the world the prouder they will be to call
themselves American. And nobody can call us
Klux because we won't bar anyone on racial
or religious grounds and We won't hide our
faces or burn fiery crosses. We must use the
word union too, in our title to express the
fact that we are an organization of American
labor.
I think the next thing to do is to hold neigh
borhood meetings and give readings from the
congressional reports on the conduct Of the
Labor Relations boards for instance, and from
the confessions of backslid bolos such as Ben
Gitlow, who was Earl providers predecessor
| in the great conspiracy. We would want to
unsmear the Dies committee, too, and show
| that its bad name created by the Com
munists and New Deal bigots whom it was
exposing. We should roust Dies out of his lazy
retirement and yank him around the country
like a political Johnny Appleseed to talk to
little punches of people in parlors, lodge rooms
and churches, the way Henry Wallace cam
paigned last time.
One of those congressional reports tells us
fkNnfD IL
munists right in the middle of the Labor Re-
lations administration From the very start
they stayed there until this House committee
showed up their dirty work and since then they
have hoped back into the Communist move
ment. Nobody can tell us Roosevelt didn't
know what he was doing either. These reports
are full OF good campaign material but We have
got to work at this fight because those other
people are working all the time and they have
long jump us.
We would want to get hold of some good
cartoonists, and blow up lot of nasty carl
catures of Sidney Hillman with his arm
around BroWder with the American home and
flag trampled underfoot and little figures of
American people in chains around their
feet We would want serpents with the ham
mer and sickle on them coiling through the
schools and the Supreme Court with the flag
in there again, this time topping from its
staff on the capitol dome.
This may sound pretty violent but remem-
Der that is the kind of propaganda the CIO i'm
ions OF Hillman's PAC put out and will be
putting out again in the next congressional cleo
tons. Remember how they said vote for
Dewey was vote for Hitler? And remember
that anyone who opposed Roosevelt was a
quisling? And you think you can lick such
people without playing rough?
We would want some clever, corny songs
too and good quartette like that Communist
outfit which turned out those CLIO hymns of
hate and presently was discovered working for
the Office OF War Information. We have plenty
OF good, corny writers on our side and for
music we could swipe old hillbilly and cowboy
things. We should turn out records by the mil
lion to hop up the spirit of our movement and
by all means we should get time on the air
and hope Petrillo does try to stop u.s.
Our writers should whip up some plays, too,
depicting the conquest of our country by the
Communists with the most hideous charac-
tiers bossing us around and the people all
ragged and hungry. These plays needn't be
very good. All of theirs were trash but we
didn't have any plays at all. AS far as the
MOVIES are concerned, I suppose we are block
AIDED for the time being because we couldn't
get stribution and exhibition even if we could
get production, as we probably could not
Well, SO much for that phase of our cam
palgn but what about the constructive part?
We can't hope for good results, even if we
win, if we sell nothing but hate.
True they sold hate but they also sold the
voters program. 1t is fake program, to be
sure, but by the force of their propaganda they
convinced the majority that the opposition pro-
gram was only an imitation of their fake as
am afraid it was in some spots So the
| majority took the genuine fake.
| Our program has got to appeal to labor
and convince the working people that personal
and family security and prosperity can be en-
| joyed only if labor and capital, or industry
cooperate partners and above all, national
| istic Americans. We should revive the COM
| pany union spirit a national scale and fo~
this purpose should recall the wonderful stories
Of comfortable living and happy relations with
| the companies in many of our towns until
the CIO came along and, with the help of
labor relations, busted things wide open and
made these people join the CLIO. They will
tell you that company unions are Illegal but
they aren't
AS to the war, we would say we aren't
fighting to exterminate Fascism but just to
lick Germany and Japan, and fix them so they
can't do it again What political philosophy
or mania they pursue after that is none of
our business and if it is then we are committed
to fight Russia because the Communist die
tatorshlp is just bad.
But the first thing is to get going. Hillman
and Browder have given us wonderful blue
print for organization and propaganda and
nlain easily understandable demonstration of