The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-20


ers, His articles serve the GOOD purpose
of making people THINK
By WEsTBROOK PEGLER
downright. 1s45, bv King Features Syndicate)
NEW YORK-The abandonment OF the po-
lev of cooperation which tEe American com
m1,nis5s adopted for the duration OF Russla's
w.r has been followed almost Immediately
in New York by a showdown strike IN the
omnibus system. This ingenious method OF IN
dustria sabotage was first tl'eo out IN france
II NAV be significant that the decree TO inc
American communists was issued unoer inc
name of a French communist 1t was puo
Hshed however, in the party's New York pa
per and adopted promptly as the new parry
line. 1t calls for resumption ct the class Wa1
and this means strikes, organized riots ana
the deliberate infliction of distress on the pop
ulation by such stratage1ns as this showdown
strike of the bus drivers in the streets ct
New York AS a result of this showdown IN
which the buses creep along the curps IN
single file hundreds of thousands OF unoffend-
ing workers have been delayed and nave su =
fered the discomfort which was calculated In
advance by the communists who infest the
Transport Workers Union OF the CLIO and con-
troll its policies and actions
The weather has been painfully hot inter
spersed with heavy rainfall which drencheS
ners There have been angry struggles among
the crowds for places ABOARD the creeping
buses and the delays, in their effect on in
dividuals, undoubtedly have retarded the pro
duction and delivery of materials to The men
who are still fighting a war in which Russle
is not involved.
| The Transport Workers Union was a pet
Of the Roosevelt administration and it has
achieved the power to tie up New York abso
| lutely whenever, in the decision of the COM
nunists. the class war has reached an ap
propriate stage
| In the present case there was neither q
vote nor an order from the union headquai
tiers authorizing the strike ard the union has
| taken the position that strike exists 1t Is
lust coincidence that the drivers are all run
ming fa1 behind schedule. Individual drivers.
| however have tacitly acknoW ledged that
sloW-do strike is in effect and 1t Will pc
noted that this method, imported here before
the war after the French experiments, Is
more difficult to contend with than the Old
fashioned open strike Inasmuch as the driv-
ers are still aboard and moving, though at a
! crawl and in procession, the union can con-
tend that there is no strike and that, there
FORE there is no occasion for the use OF strike
breakers or the seizure of the property anf,
the operation of the buses by the Army Thus:
also. Phillip Murray, the president of the CLIO.
may deduct this strike from the disgraceI'll
total of CLIO violations of the Wanted no
strike pledge that he gave 10 Roosevelt after
Pearl Harbor.
| Last summer these dispatches reported that
the communists had taken lesson from the
obliteration of the roller and ball-bearlng In
dustry in Germany whereby German indus
try was terribly crippled. General Carl
| Spaatz seems to have had the idea first. The
| plan recognized that if production OF these
| bearings could be stopped OF even seriously
diminished, the Nazis could not produce en-
| gnes for planes or submarines or land We
hicles or the many types of machinery used
in the manufacture of machinery. Thousands
of young Americans risked their lives anc
many were lost in the raids beginning with
Schweinfurt where go bombers went down but
the campaign went on and Russia, no less
than the United States, enjoyed the results .!
it's success in the diminution of German
strength and resistance
| In communist strategy, whose objective is
civil commotion, the grievance is never a
cause but always a Subterfuge. Grievances
can always be improvised and mere lrrlta
tons magnified into unbearable imposiLons as
in a case where the hockey pokey wagon has
only chocolate ice cream when a suffering
toiler wants vanilla. The party strategy also
surveys the anatomy of nations industry
and selects the jugular where mortal damage
may be inflicted with the least effort.
There are only few thousand bus drivers
in New York whose present conduct, if con-
tinued indefinitely. nevertheless could cause
disturbances far out of proportion to their
number Similarly, there are only few thou
sand employees in all the American plants
producing roller and ball-bearings who by 4
long strike could retard industrial conversion
unemployment and recovery to much great
er extent than General Spaatz injured the
| Germans in those particular raids. The diff
and make-do whereas in our country, under
| RooSeveltS laws and labor bureaus, when the
bearing workers 60 out nobody can take the;,
| places. Thus, soon, the automobile industry
| again closes down and the workers as tar
back the mines and cotton fields, arc
those in the tire factories, glass factories anc
offices, the railroad men who move the ma
terials and finished automobiles the men who
are to build those new railroad cars which
lion thrown out of work. Destituton fol
lows, affecting returned service men and
such is the communist formula. there will be
riots flouting all government and communism
will arrive.
There was practice strike in Canton, o.
last summer which involved not more than
10000 workers but tied up 80 per cent of the
roer-hearing capacity of the United States
The union involved was Phillip Murrays own
steel workers.
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