Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-04
FAIR
ENOUGH
BY Westbrook
Peg|er n


Roosevelt. Americans, should de-
eide to swipe the book Of the
CIO-Communist Political Ac-
ton Committee and organize
along the same lines and use
the same propaganda, but in re-
verse, how would we 90 about
il?
Well. first, the name of our
organization has got to have the
word American" or America"
in il. 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 remember 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.
A ND nobody can call us Klux
"A because we won't bar any
one 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.
/ think the next thing TO do Is
to hold neighborhood meetings
and give readings from the con-
gressional reports on the con-
duct OF the labor relations
boards. for instance, and from
the confessions of backslid bolos
such as Ben Gitlow. who was
Earl Browder's predecessor in
the great conspiracy. We would
want TO unsmear the Dies COM
mittee, too. and show that itst
bad name was created by the
Communists and New Deal
bigots whom ii was exposing.
WE SHOULD roust Dies out
w OF his lazy retirement and
yank him around the country
like political Johnny Appleseed
tn talk TO little bun c hes of
people in parlors. lodge rooms
and churches, the way Henry
Wallace campaigned last time.
One of those congressional re-
ports tells US that Roosevelt
planted two rank, reeking Com
munists right in the middle of
the labor relations administra-
ton. 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 Commu-
MIST movement.
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 10 work at this fight
because those other people are
working all the time and they
have a long jump on US
WE WOULD want 10 get hold
w some good cartoonistS. and
blow up a lot of nasty carica-
lures of Sidney Hillman with his
arm around Browder with the
American home and flag tram
pied underfoot and little figures
Of American people in chains
around their feet. We would
want serpents with the hammer
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 remember that is the kinda
Of propaganda the Go unions>
of Hlllman's PAC put out and
will be putting out again in the
next congressional elections.
Remember how they said a vote
for Dewey was vote for Hit
Ter? And remember that any
one who opposed Roosevelt was
Quisling? And you think you
can lick uch people without
playing rough?
WE WOULD want some
w clever. corny songs, too.
and a good quartet like that
Communist outfit which turned
loose those Go 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 swine
old hillbilly and cowboy things.
We should turn out records
by the million 10 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 us.
Our writer's should whip I'D
some plays. too, depicting the
conquest of our country by the
Communists with the most hide
Gus characters boSslng us
around and the people ragged
and hungry
THESE plays needn't be very
Il good. All Of theirs we're
trash but we didn't have any
plays at all AS far as movies
are concerned, l suppose we are
blockaded for the time being
because we couldn't get distri-
button and exhibition even il we
could get production.as we prob
ably could not.
Well, so much for that phase
of our campaign, but WHAT