The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-01
Fair Enough
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright, 1915, by King Features syndi

BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright, 1945, by King Features Syndicate.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 80 - Let us assume
that the men with the little gold button in the
left lapel, civilians who were fighters in uni
form yesterday, all want jobs.
Many jobs are available but the union move
ment, no longer a labor organization but
lawless political power, forbids the war veter.
ans to work at them and plants pickets to
beat up these new civilians, one by one, over.
turn their automobiles and keep them at
distance.
Going further. the unions will terrorize the
veterans families. Persons unknown will
throw bricks and filth through their windows,
keep them sleepless in the night with mys-
terious threats by telephone and plant silent
land-mines in drive-ways, consisting of small
nails in boads, to ruin their tires The police
and sheriffs will be helpless. The law will
be useless. Government will abdicate as it did
before
Germans and Japs learned in battle. Having
faced gun-fire and explosive land-mines sure
ly they are not afraid of few hundred un-
military civilians. Afraid? Of course they are
not afraid. They are fighters.
Well, then, why won't the veterans meet
force with force and psychological terror with
methods that they learned in training and
perfected In war?
The answer is that the union terrorists were
thinking far ahead.
They foresaw this situation and planned
well for it.
They are organized and the veterans are
ers. The veterans have none. Their staff work
not. The unions have their general headquart-
is the result of experience in old organization
wars and strikes They have their field COM
manders and their sergeants and corporals
on the picket lines. Lieutenants posted at tele.
phones get orders from headquarters and
transmit reports of action on their sectors,
They have rowing cars with loud-speakers to
appeal to the veterans with propaganda Just
as, in the war, the soldiers worked on the
confusion OF the enemy by promising them
comfort and safety in surrender and pointing
out the error in their loyalty to their dctators.
Union propaganda does not always threaten
those who would crash the picket lines Often
it Wheedles, pleading with them to forsake
the cause Of the corporations to see the light
and join their fellow proletarians, saying moth.
ing, however, about dictatorship under racke.
teers and communists.
But, if it comes to fighting with tire irons,
battle-hooks and clubs studded with nails,
they are organized for that too. The sticks
which carry the strike placards technically
are not clubs but harmless staffs with their
printed appeals. These placards dwindled in
size during the organization strikes in the mo-
tor industry under Mr.. Roosevelt's patronage
until they were mere calling-cards, held in
place by nails. They had wicked weapons.
The Supreme Court would forbid any attempt
to disarm the pickets of these clubs. They are
just legitimate and innocent means of hold.
ing aloft printed appeals. Freedom of speech.
you know
And, of course, the union armies wear uni.
forms for Identification Sometimes the uni.
form consists of a distinctive CIO overseas
cap with insignia and piping. It may be
brassard.
We know that private armies are forbidden
put we have old movies taken in Michigan.
OHIO and Pennsylvania, during" Roosevelt's
ClO riots, which show organization, command
and discipline.
These American veterans were the greatest
fighters in the world fighting as units or
teams. Each man had his duties and thew
cooperated like the parts of ship in a storm
or a machine in motion. They had uniforms.
psychological weapons and the backing of
government which now abandons them in ia.
vor of their enemies on the picket lines in
their war for the right to work.
Now they are individuals. If thew trv to or
game, the unions will plant spies among them
to tip off the union intelligence regarding their
plans ana to spread propa ganda in their ranks
Ihe unions have hundreds of millions of war
profits for their fight. The veterans are broke.
Moreover, if they adopt distinctive caps or
brassards and try to carry the fight to the
picket lines, they violate the laws of their
states and federal laws, too At best they will
be called Fascists and stooges of the war
proflteers who run the companies Their old
comrades are scattered and they are Just in.
dividual civilians
But surely, men who fought to preserve the
nation against foreign enemies while the union
bosses thrived, .fattened and increased their
political power and their treasures at home
nave as much right to organize for battle as
the unions have and the right to 60 unmolested
to and from lawful employment.
That is what they think That is what YOU
think.
But it just isn't so. The union bosses knew
1t all the time moreover, and planned for
these strikes knowing that rioting murder and
arson, robbery, vandalism and terrorism were
conceded to be their exclusive right in MIR.
Roosevelt's time. They, alone, of all elements
IN the United States, enjoy those rights and
there is no indication that President Truman
will challenge them.
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