Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
WEsTBROOK
PECLER
Fair
Enough
A N ARMY captain in the Pa.

- cific has written 10 ask y
whether il is true that in that
brave new world of the future,
should he live to see it, he may
be compelled to join union or
go without JOB.
have sent him a note tell
ing him that he will. but / feel
that he and few million other
servicemen would like 10 know
more about their status as citi-
zens and veterans of the war
in relation TO the unions.
These men have an idea that
when they come marching home
they will stand for no restric-
tions on their right to work inn
posed by such political bosses
of their sub-government as Sid
ney Hillman. Dave DubinSky.
Jimmy Petrillo and Old Dan
Tobin.
Well, ! am sorry to have TO
say that they are wrong.
IN THE first place, the minute
l. soldier takes off that uni
form he is just another civilian.
That little gilt button in his
left lapel doesn't mean a thing.
Haven't they got the Ameri-
can Legion and the Veterans Of
Foreign Wars and this New
Deal Trojan Horse thing which
bobbed up at the San Francisco
conference, claiming TO repre-
sent the discharged fighting
men?
Well, l will tell you what
about them, too.
They will lobby through many
cash benefits. some of them dis
guised as loans, and subsidies
10 help the veterans start lunch
wagons, but they won't tackle
the unions
And any veterans organiza.
tion that honestly tries 10 estab-
lish- for its members the right
TO work without joining will be
smeared as a Fascist movement
with all the standard dirty i'm
plicatons such as Jew-baiting,
Jim-Crowism and union-busting.
TNiESE people have been
L siphoning off about one
thousand million dollars wear
in war profits and. as they have
often said themselves in attack
ing the soulleSs corporations.
money in such amounts is a tre-
-nehaeHs= power IN politics
Already they print lot of
weekly papers and they are
now talking up among them
selves national daily propa-
ganda paper. 10 he published IN
New York, of course.
That is the form Of their
journalism and thus far they
have found that Hitler's method
works we'll with their subjects.
The teamsters' onthly
magazine is almost exclusively
devoted 10 the personal glorlfi-
cation Of Old Man Tobin. who
actually occupies royal status
above his subjects. with his
sons. the princes of the house,
planted on the pay rolls.
And any number Of the Pilot.
the official organ Of the
National Maritime Union. is a
misprint that doesn't contain at
least six photographs OF Joe
Curran. who hollered for a
second front but could not take
time of TO be there.
no YOU think the boss
~ unloneers would hesitate 10
call veteran dirty Fascist
for insisting on his right 10 a
Job without a union card even
though he should wear a medal
Of honor for bravery in smash
ing FasciSm at Anzio or Cas-
sIno? You wait and see.
You have heard a lot about
the CT Bill of Rights, but you
VIII not find one word which
recognizes any right of a dis
charged lighting man in con-
flict with the privileges that
were granted these unions hy
the CTS late revered comman-
der in chief.
The unions come first.
They get first chop at your
pay because If you don't pay up
on time you can't earn any in
come on which 10 pay tax 70
Uncle Sam.
They come before the church
because. again, If you don't keep
up in your owings 10 the union.
YOU can't earn a dime or quar-
ter for the collection plate.
They come before your family
in the same way and. unlike the
treasury and the church, they
don't carry delinquents..
Old Sam will not blackball
you out Of your Job for de-
linquency and the church al
ways carries a load of dead
heads.
But not the unions.
OR SUPPOSE you do make
~ borry from Old Sam and
start that lunch-wagon or
little trucking business and hire
cprfp of tOnr old cOporaJcc