Detroit evening times., 1945-02-23
FAIR
ENOUGH
By Westbrook
PeeIer

I THINK Tom Dewey made a
4 great mistake last summer
and fall In accepting the Wag.
ner Act as a permanent thing
and pralslng it as a good and
necessary Law,
This seemed TO me 10 be Just
a bid for votes and I doubt that
II won him a single vote because
those who believe this IS a good
and necessary law would 80
along with the man who put 1t
over.
This, Of course. wasn't Sena-
tor Bob Wagner of New York,
an old-tine Iannmanyte no
better than the political en-
Nlronment that produced him,
although he has been sold IN a
9audy package as one Of those
progressive and humane num-
bers.
II was Franklin D. Roosevelt
who put the thing over and II IS
Of a piece with his Ns2i-Coul-
n1unlst quest for power over the
people IN which, so often he has
made them think he was dong
them some wonderful favor
when IN fact. he was Just
measuring them for another
pair Of leg-lrons.
DEWEY should have torn the
~ Wagner act 10 shreds ard
let the votes 90 where they
might because y IS bad law
and 4 totahtsrlan man-trap.
Some ot the most intelligent
union men IN the country agree
that this IS 50 and would be
pleased 70 see It stripped down
70 stEfafEEele affirm attien of labor
right 70 organize. forbiddlrg
employers 10 FIRE workers for
loin!ng unions, with penalties
for violation.
This thing created a turtiVe,
underharded bureau NTH the
poWers~of nudge jury prosecu-
tor and complaining witness
The evil Of this law 70 labor
itself IS that II undertakes 20
take over the functions Of the
unions, which are their only rea-
son for existence
II drives bargains for them
II compels employers 70 az
contracts and the agents Of the
labor relations board actually
serve as union organizers
II even collects dues and fees
for the unions
Thus the unions are changing
INTO mere political party alA-
lharles
The trouble WITH Deuey ard
most other Republicans IS that
they despair Of convincing peo-
pie that al tins Is bad for labor.
The Wagner Act has had ire
benefit II an enoTr7oIs propa-
Fa7ds and any Republican car
d!date Or party worker who saws
y is rad and explains why has
two strikes on mn.
The unloneerS of the FooSe-
velt Nazi-Cor1nunist movement
would call him q Fascls' a re-
acuonarv labor-hater and
PROBABLY a TorE,
NEVERTHELESS. any one
~ Who <eslly believes re act
is VICIOUS should have tne IT.
'egrl'Y 70 damn u as menace
70 Tire freedom ot American
labor and never r1lrd the votes.
II ! Vere Republican candi-
date for president I would r1uc,
rather be licked as badly as Az
Lsrdon was, or worse. than owe
ny election 70 my hypocrltlcal
enforcement II 4 Law which I
would place al TIRE top Of my lst
for repeal or REVISION.
Frsncls Blddle the attorney
general. announced last Year
that the New Deal party vas
allied 10 unlonlsnl.
He voulI have beer more
honest had he SAID that the
Roosevelt party had absorbed
the unions and beWltched and
degraded their members. taken
over the unions duties and re-
duced them 70 complete sub
lection as Nussollni and Hitler
did usually IN collusion with
the big EMPLOYERS
HENRY KAISER after :
II long masquerade II non-
political colors recently has
MADE himself CONSPICUOUS
among the Roosevelt adhercnt.
He Is a Wlcy and dlsarring
fellow whose miracles Of pro-
duction have beer ballyhooed
eKtravarantly while other
rlracle-men ~ industry have
been loW-rated because they
hate the Wagner Act and could
not be successfully charged
with any kind words for Roose-
velt, himself
Kaiser policy has been to
give the unions anything.
When he had only a skeleton
Of his present enormous ship
building organization. he gave
the bollermakers' union a