The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-14
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright, 1915, by King Features SYndic ate J

By WESTBROOK PEGLER
| Copyright, 1915, by King Features Syndicate
| II the American civilian is drafted for labor
| subject to arbitrary assignment in a non-serv-
ice status at fixed wages, that loss of freedom
will be a price paid by the whole people for
the political ambitions of Franklin D. Roose-
welt and his wife and the crimes of the union
movement.
This man already has more power than any
other president ever had and many of the
powers exercised by Adolf Hitler and Joseph
Stain. IT, so empowered, he has failed to
produce sufficiently for the war then he has
fallen down on this job through inconvenience
and his own selfish politics.
His demand for the labor draft is con-
fession that he has failed to produce
But the debates have proved that the draft
is unnecessary and the War and Navy de-
partments, including the secretaries and manv
high service officers, have been guilty of con-
nivance at fraudulent arguments that it is
necessary. This is dangerous conspiracy by
these departments and these officers to abol-
ish the freedom of the whole people, probably
! forever.
| With Roosevelt, as commander in chief, they
have misrepresented facts and ignored
others, and the services, for the first time,
have made a grab for authority over the
civilian population. Given this grip over the
people for the duration Of the "emergency,"
which might last ten or II years, they never
could be shaken off and we would have
continental society bossed by generals and ad-
mirals under the patronage OF their boss.
Under Roosevelts politics we have had war
| industry strikes at the rate OF 5000 year.
He and his union henchmen and his labor
department have falsfied the loss of man.
power caused by these strikes and by the con-
| sequent idleness of non-strikers. The loss of
hours by non-strikers has been more grievous
than the loss Of production by actual strikers
but is always ignored by them in their self
serving albs. In Philadelphia a few street
car men quit, interrupting the work Of half
a million workers who used the for trans
portation The subservient department of just
| ice made a fake prosecution OF the strike
| leaders to shift the blame from Roosevelt.
The guilt was his because he drove the men
to strike by delivering them into the power
of a group Of New York Communists whose
conspira torial activities the bitterly re-
scented. The whole proceeding by the govern
ment to punish the leaders of the anti-Com-
munist rebellion was crooked and strictly po-
litical. And the loss Of production here was
sacrifice to Roosevelt's alliance with Sidney
Hillman's Communist following. This loss is
falsely attributed to a labor shortage and the
whole American people are threatened with
civilian CONSUMPTION a punishment for
| Roosevelts nefarious relations with political
enemies of the United States.
This demand for CONSUMPTION has been cried
up by James Byrnes, political handshaker
who, justice of the Supreme court up
held the standby featherbedding systems
! of unions which actually forbid men to do
as much work as they reasonably can and
even forbid many to work at all It was
Byrnes who wrote that a teamster was 'em-
ployed' if he merely stuck gun in the ribs
OF truckman entering New York and de-
manded &c. a days wages, for driving the
| truck into the city but actually refused to
drive it a single inch. That standby system
has wasted millions of hours that might have
been worked by e-bodied man and it is
maintained by Roosevelt in political con-
spiracy with a gang of predatory unioneers
who have supported him in return. Now it is
proposed that the entire nation should aban-
don the liberty of civilians to make up for
this continuing waste.
1t is further insisted and mean and yell
low Congress has conceded that men SO draft
ed and even shifted from their homes to atone
Tor this corruption, will have to join unions
in closed shop plants and make compulsory
contributions to Roosevelts political funds.
This was a systematic shakedoWn in the
cent campaign and men who refused to con-
tribute to Hillman's Communist auxiliary
were fired and thus subtracted from the sum
Of the nations productive manpower. This loss
was added to the 'shortage'' of labor, which
now, with the collision of the War and Navy
departments, is represented as sufficient rea-
son for civilian draft
The showdown in union ships, VIGOROUSLY
in the production of tires for the artillery and
Army vehicles in Europe, was exposed last
fall. Thousands of men and women, finishing
their easy quotas long before quitting time
simply loafed the rest of their shifts. This
was Roosevelt again, playing ball and poll
tics with the people who were collecting money
for his campaign but at cost Of tires for
lack of which the fighters at the front were
suffering shorages OF transport and presum-
ably casualties.
Even James Mead, an old professional I'M
ioneer, himself, and New Deal senator from
New York couldn't forbear to tell of loafing
in shipyards he apparently discovered only re-
Gently although it has been notorious since
Pearl Harbor and tragic discourag cement to
decent who wanted to work. Here Roose-
velts Wanted management had failed again,
but the remedy proposed is not to end loaf
| ing but a draft of more men to help the
loafers idle their days away.
| Many men and women have told their in
dividual stories of dismissal for refusal to pay
political tribute through the union collections
for the fourth term. Others were fired on the
demand of Roosevelt's unioneers because they
produced more than the union rules allowed.
| Their enforced idleness has been added to
other wastes of precious human effort in COM
piling the fake shortage of labor now offered
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