Detroit evening times., 1945-09-10
WESTBROOK
pEGLER
-Fair
Enough

years, as one of the mosr
dramatic illustrations of the
partnership between the polit.
ical labor faker and the UNDER
world unioneer, a newspaper
photograph showing La Guardia
and George Scalise. the white
SLAYER and common gangster.
signing articles OF peace.
amounting 10 surrender by
the city Of New York, at the
end of strike of elevator oper-
ators by which this low-lived
fraud had compelled hundreds
of thousands of New Workers,
including cardlacs and cripples,
TO use the stairs in high build
inRs.
IL seems not 10 have occurred
To La GuardIa 10 telephone the
detective bureau for a record
on Scalise which would have
shown him TO be not only an
unregenerate criminal NJ the
foulest type but. at that very
hour, the New York admins
traitor Of the Capone gang now
turned from liquor to the union
racket
Up 10 now, as they admit,
without such laws the thieves
still thrive IN defiant security
and the few who have been
beaten in court and sentenced
10 prison were not molested by
the federal government.
They were made notorious by
newspaper initiative in the face
Of vicious propaganda from the
Roosevelt machine and we're
convicted. one ny one. through
the diligence OF such conscIen-
tious public officers as Tom
Dewey and Frank Hogan IN
New York
They still have the protection
of the machine and the policy
that Roosevelt built 10 exploit
labor and they are not a minor
element. but an enormous power
in both the AL and the Go.
Schwellenbach begged labor
10 assume responsibility 10 the
common good and make certain
that the public good not he
transgressed
That is like en,reating thief
not N steal. Labor IS not
the worker. but the boss un.
ioneer, as often as not crook.
The worker and the common
good are helpless IN the alb.
sence NJ laws imposing respon.
Sibility on the unions and pro-
tecting The rank and file from
the natural instincts OF the
Scoundrels.
HERE. then. We found the
H Roosevelt government plac-
ing the interests of this small
group. itself insufficient 10 do
the Job. above the lives Of mil
lions ~ American fighters who
might have had 10 invade Japan
the hard way. and. indeed.
above victory itself
Ickes was unfortunate. too. IN
lsudatory reference TO the
nomination for the office of
mayor Of Detroit Of Richard
Frankensteen. Of the United
Automobile Workers Of the
CIO.
He took satisfaction in that,
although. from Pearl Harbor 10
VI Day no other union in the
country had such shocking
record NJ strikes, slow-downs.
malingering and loafing
IckeS. with LaGuardla, had
suddenly learned that there
are some disreputable labor
leaders with grasping fingers
and deep pockets, tardy re-
alization lnssmpCh as the de-
partment OF Justice has files on
practically all OF them and re-
membering the fact that Roose-
welt made political proteges Of
the worst racketeers and
blocked all legislation proposed
to run them out
EOR that matter. | think we
i may conclude that both Of
these demagogs were merely
paying belstrd lip-service 10
honesty and are still against II
because they are of the political
cult which still insists that such
laws are unnecessary
Ickes. In his grafton before
gathering of workers. made the
mistake OF referring TO the part
which Labor" played in pro-
ducing the atomic bomb.
BY labor" OF course, 1ckes
and all members Of his school
mean the unions. not the work.
ers who. by choice or compul-
sion are members of these
predatory organizations.
And, again referring to the
files. find an original appeal
from the u 6 Employment
Service issued about a year ago,
in tones of almost frantic
urgency for several y thousand
electricians TO work on the
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