The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-21
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER

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of making people thlnko
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
| Copvrieht 1915, by King Features Synd1cate)
| It is a good rule never to judge any new
deal proposal by its protested purposes les
son we should have learned from the Wagner
act, the Social Security act and the Selectlve
Service act, to name a few examples of du-
plicitv and deceit The Wagner act was das-
cribed as a law to guarantee to workers the
right to bargain collectively through agents OF
their own free choice. 1t is, however, in prac-
tice, political mantrap which has forced mil
lions of men and women to accept against
their will bargaining agents unknown to them
who are gauleiters of the Roosevelt version OF
Hitler's national socialism who then compel
these citizens to contribute to the political
funds of the Roosevelt party.
| During the war, the unions which these gau-
letters control have steathily surrendered the
old independence of the union movement to
the exent that nowadays the Roosevelt party,
not the unions, actually does the collective
bargaining. The gauleirers' bargaining func-
ton now consists only OF approving terms
decreed by the party through various agencies.
Their chief business is to make propaganda
to prevent the workers from realizing that
their unions have become truly Hlt!erlan po-
litical division of the party in power.
| Social security was represented as an old
age pension fund but it has turned out to be
merely a disguised income tax on millions OF
workers who were assured meanwhile mat
this party would never tax incomes as small
as theirs The money has been spent as it
| came in for the normal expenses and ex-
travagances of the Roosevelt government and
it never has been fund but an l. .. U. pay
able through taxation by future generations.
Selective service was represented as law
to draft fighters for the national defense but
has been used to dragon civilians into unfa-
miliar occupations and, incidentally, into the
unions, which as stated, then tax them for the
party's political funds.
So naturally when Mr.. Roosevelt and Henry
Wallace tell us that the country will need co.
900, 900 jobs after the war, we must wonder
what else they have in mind.
What are they up to now?
Well, for one thing. We may be sure, they
will encourage the use of all the now familiar
terroristic tricks to force these 100000 into
the unions. The income of the unions has been
about s., 900, 900, 900 year for some years now.
Through the sales tax, recently hit upon by
Jimmy Petrillo of the musicians and John
Lewis of the miners, it might rise to 10, Is or
only limit is the peoples ability to pay. But
if the Roosevelt party could be assured Co.
900, 900 taxable subjects in unions then, at the
modest rate of $50 a year, including initiation
fees, special assessments and dues, there
would be an assured increase of three bill
lions year, available for politics
We have seen and come to accept nor
NAL practice many of the oblique pressures
which the prty, itself, through the govern
ment agencies employs to drive people into
unions experimenting the more directly bru-
tai methods of the unioneerS themselves. An
individual worker is a nobody and the hidden
meaning of Roosevet's phrase the forgotten
man. reveals itself dawningly, day by day.
The individual can't get raise, even though
he has earned it and the employer wants to
pay him what he is worth. But union can
get raise for hundred a thousand en-
ployeeS. The unioneers and, for that matter,
Mrs. Roosevelt, herself, have emphasized this
fact as an advantage of union membership.
Many workers, possibly majority of them,
think this is fine and their loyalty to unionsm
and the Roosevelt party has been intensified.
If, in the long run, they continue to think So
even though they realize in dim and painless
way that they have sold their individuality
for few cents an hour, that will be their
choice and their fate.
What else are they up to when they speak of
so 000, 900 Jobs?
American home with the sledge-hammer that
is found with the sickle on the flag of COM
munism.
If we are to have 10000, 900 jobs for people
within the employable ages, that means that
almost as many women men will have jobs.
That means dual job-holding in the family as
national policy and custom. That in turn,
must mean the adoption of the Russian sys-
tenn of checking the children at public nur.
sery for public mothering. 1t must also mean
the employment of millions of women at mas
culine work, in overalls, in peacetime, when
the urgency of war has been relieved, for OBJ
viously there would not be enough jobs of
strictly feminine type to accommodate so
many.
Necessity, of course, justified exceptions as
when the husbands pay is just too small for
his responsibilities or he is out of work or
misfortune in business or sickness send
| loyal wife forth to help. And many women even
IN normal times insist on working at occupa-
| tons which interest them, though necessity is
not factor.
| This, however, is a very different matter
pretending a serious change. For here we
have a government proposal whose effect
would seem to be to send most of the Ameri-
| can women from 10 to 60 into steady all-day
or all-night employment outside their homes.
So those glamorized propaganda pictures come
| to mind of buxom, smiling Russian women
pushing wheel-barrows and drilling with rifles
1t would appear that Roosevelt and Wallace
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