The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-11
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER
copyright, 1945, by King Features Syndi

VI (C0pyr1ght, 1919, Dy Ming Features Syndlcate)
NEW YORK, Sept. 10-When President Tru.
man broadly indicted the American people in
the Pearl Harbor disaster he merely fortified
the indictment against the Roosevelt govern
ment. Mr.. Truman is a true believer in de.
mocracy which means majority rule Mr.
Roosevelt gloried in his mandate from his
majority and no other government in our re-
| cent history showed such exclusive interest in
its own following or such sneering Indifference
to the petitions and criticisms Of the minority.
Having no authority, this minority Of the
American people could have had no RESPONSE
bility so, as to them the indictment must fail.
Now it is true that there were republicans
in America First and some republicans did
call Mr.. Roosevelt warmonger. But Senator
Burt Wheeler, of Montana, a democrat, also
was an angry isolationist and Congressman
Hatton Summers, Of Dallas a democrat, re-
marked concerning the Roosevelt policies in
the late pre-war days that man who tickles
| the heels Of mule and is kicked into the
middle OF next week shouldn't blame the mule
But the most effective opponents of prepara-
ton for war were not mere publicists and
orators but communists in the Roosevelt polit-
lcal party who controlled certain unions OF
his protege, the CLIO.
Among them is the American Newspaper
Guild.
In the summer of 1940 the national con-
vention OF the guild killed resolution which
would have bracketed communism with
Nazisn1 and fascism Stain and Mussolini
were war-partners at the time and the Ameri-
can communists, who dominated the guild
were damning the war as war of conquest
by lmperlalist Britain and France. The Amer
leans in the guild were no match for the
communists of New York and California
Many ostensible Americans were under-cover
communists who pretended to be Liberals
and condemned as "red-baiting'' and fascist
| reaction" any opposition to the communist
treachery.
In the fall Of 1910, the New York local or
ganization of the guild, always favored SUBJ
division of the New Deal, passed a resolution
condemning CONSUMPTION. Had this attitude
prevailed throughout the nation, the United
States would have been helpless after Pearl
Harbor. However, Stain was then cola borat-
ing with Hitler and guild communists wanted
this country to remain helpless so that vic
torious Russia and Germany could partition
the United States as they had Poland.
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt has been member
of the guild since its beginning, although she
never mas been eligible. She, too, recently
blamed "the people and the isolationists for
Pearl Harbor.
On another occasion, in New York, gener-
al membership meeting of the guild adopted
resolution in favor of the notorious strike of
the United Auto Workers of the CIO at the
North American Aviation plant in Inglewood
Cal, which Mr. Roosevelt put down by arms
employing regiment of the regular Army
to dispel rioters. This strike was sabotage to
prevent the manufacture of planes for Britain
and France and the development of airplane
production for our own uses. Mr.. Roosevelt
called 1t an lnsurrection and pointedly ident-
fled its communist inspiration
| The United Auto Workers, the National Mar
| thine Union and the guild were conspicuous
among the unions dominated by communists
which, In those days, were unaware of and
"apathetic" toward the peril from Japan and
the coming necessity to supply the American
margin of tools and fighting power which later
saved Russia from Hitler.
| At the guild meeting, which protested
| against the Arny's suppression of the Ingle-
wood "insurrection.'' a resolution condemning
| communist and NaZi'' maneuvering in the
American union movement was voted down
overwhelmingly. Like most general member
ship meetings of the New York guild it was
unrepresentative of the actual American news
paper talent, the communists had opened guild
membership to communist furriers, needle
workers, culinary workers and nondescripts
predominantly immigrants, on the excuse that
they were publishing printed or mimeographed
handbills of communist propaganda. This
made them journalists.
LII July, lS4U, william l.. Laurence, OF the
New York Times, recently hailed as one of the
greatest American journalists in recognition
of his scientific knowledge of the atomic bomb,
= resigned from the guild. He said it had been
! kidnapped by communists and that its leaders
were enemies of those very things that are
to me the most precious of mankind''
The guild said he could not resign, warning
him that he was exposing himself to severe
discipline. The inexperienced American rank
and file had entered man-trap union like the
communist party, ITSELF from which there was
! no resignation but only expulsion, with penal
ties Since then, others VINO thought they had
resigned. have had to pay $500 for permission
to accept jobs in guild shops.
Had the guild succeeded in its mission to
establish closed shops on the Times and all
other papers, the American press and the pub
lie would have been denied the services of
Mr.. Laurence in the story of the atomic bomb
by the Army.
All these are Mr.. Humans own people by
political inheritance and the United Auto
Workers bring to his adherence the worst
record of strikes and subtle sabotage in the
entire disgraceful story of political unionism
in the war;
Nevertheless, Roosevelt, Henry Wallace,
Harold Ickes. Mrs. Roosevelt and others have
honored and patronized them indicating be-
You'd question that they had no serious objec-
tons to their guilt in the Pearl Harbor affair,
however they migls abhor the abstract isola-
tionism of Ham Fish and Charles Lindbergh