Detroit evening times., 1945-05-10
FAIR
ENOUGH
BY Westbrook. .
PegIer>

cisco during the conference OF
the representatives of the gov
ernments on our side of the
war, has been spectacular flop.
At the time when the thing
was organized. Mr.. Roosevelt
was still president and Hillman.
OF course, was a very important
fellow.
He had raised the money and
his people had boosted the vote
out OF bed last year and. with
out going into the legality OF
their methods again at this
time, they busted off a chair
right by the boss elbow.
However, they opposed Harry
Truman for nomination for the
vice presidency because Truman
didn't speak their language and
now they have discovered that
they don't speak his, either.
IT Is impossible 10 believe that
i if Mr.. Roosevelt had lived.
Hillman, Murray and the de-
voted Communist friends so
often recognized by Mrs.
Roosevelt and Henry Wallace,
would have been kept out Of
San Francisco with their for
eign friends. parked in the city
OF Oakland across the bay, and
not even invited TO take over
at least one session OF the
peace conference for some YELL
ing about democracy, which, in
their understanding. includes
the dictatorship OF Joseph
Stain.
Oakland is a very nice city .
but so is Newark, n. j.. and
Oakland is 10 San Francisco as a
Newark is TO New York.
These foreigners arc not dum-~
mics and they know that any
outfit claiming to represent
American labor which can't
find rooms for its guests in the
same town with the peace con-
ference, much less swing
enough influence TO get them
an Official hearing and a fair
mess OF publicity is losing its
power.
The NAIVE. wholesome and
practical Russian TOVAR-
1SHES probably are wondering
when a firing squad is going TO
call for the Messrs. Hillman
and Murray and liquidate them.
THE reason for this humiliat-
L ing snub is not merely the
fact that Truman is free man
as far as Hillman and Murray
arc concerned. A worse reason
is that the So-called delegates,
in most cases. don't represent
labor.
a fellow who Is an awful
bum m his own country may
cut a very interesting figure
in a strange land II his gov
crnment gives him credentials
and he talks loud and fast.
We know that from experience
with some Of the prepoSterous
alcoholics SlohS and high
bracket gigoloS whom the New
Deal selected 10 personify the
honor and dignity of the United
States IN foreign capitals dur
Ing the long alteration.
uOW do you suppose Iran or
IL Iraq. AbysSinia or China.
for example, selects truly
representative spokesman Of It's
working people? DO they hold
a formal election by secret ball
lot or does some politician cor
responding 10 our Senator Joe a
Guffey decide that one OF his
boys would be better for long
Journey and some rare viandS
and exotic delicacieS9
One OF the American Com
munist takers spoke Of world
labor organization representing
90 million organized toilers.
II we are not careful they
will take up that figure and
beat us over the ears with il
until we are daZed and unable
10 remind ourselves that it Is
not supported by facts.
II was thus with the figure
Of so million jobs which
Roosevelt and Wallace said, and
the CIO now insists, will be
necessary for solvency, TO say
nothing of prosperity in the
United States after the war.
That many jobs would mean
that almost as many women
as men would have 10 work
steadily and that the American
children of the coming genera
tion would be raised in state
brooderS.
This would be fine with the
Communists but the Americans
have a high sales resistance to
such innovations so lately we
have heard very little about
tho 60 million jobs.
The American unioneerS OBJ
viously realize that they are
in bad trouble
uILLMAN, Murray and the
IL Communists have prattled
about unity in labor all over the
world while at home John l..
Lewis Of the Mine Workers and
Robert Watt of the American
Federation of Labor blow rasp-
berries at them. reminding the
polyglots of Oakland that the
CIO. itself, is minority OF
American labor and a disruptive
group of dual unionists. at that.
Divided by professional, per-
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