Detroit evening times., 1945-03-22
FAIR
ENOUGH
Westbrook
:. PeeIer

IT is good rule never 10
4 judge any New Deal proposal
by Its professed purposes, a les
son we should have learned
from the Wagner Act. the So
cial Security Act and the Selec-
tive Service Act, to name d few
examples of duplicity and de-
ceit.
The Wagner Act was de-
scribed as law to guarantee
to workers the right to bargain
collectively through agents of
their own free choice.
1t is, however, in practice, a
political mantrap which has
forced millions 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 con-
tribute to the political funds Of
the Roosevelt party.
During the war, the unions
which these gauleiters control
have steaithily surrendered the
old independence of the union
movement 10 the extent that
nowadays the Roosevelt party,
not the unions. actually does
the collective bargaining.
The gauleiters' bargaining
function 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 q
truly Hitlerian political division
of the party in power.
SOCIAL SECURITY was rep
~ resented as an old age pen-
sion fund but it has turned out
10 be merely a disguised in-
come tax on millions OF workers
who were assured meanwhile
tillS ilCNCI
incomes as small as theirs.
The money has been spent as
IL came in for the normal ex-
penses and extravagances of
the Roosevelt government and
il never has been a fund but
an /. o. u. payable through
taxation by future generations.
Selective service was repre-
sented as law 10 draft fight.
ers for the national defense. but
has been used 10 dragon civil.
ians into unfamiliar occupations
and, incidentally. into the
unions, which as stated, then
tax them for the party's politi-
cal funds.
So naturally, when Mr..
Roosevelt and Henry Wallace
tell us that the country will
need 100000 jobs after the
war. we must wonder what else
they have in mind.
What are they up to nowf
WELL, for one thing. we may
w be sure, they will encourage
the use of all the now familiar
terroristic tricks TO force these
$4,000, 900 into the unions.
The income OF the unions has
been about 81 900. .000, 900 a year
for some years now.
Through the sales tax. re-
Gently hit upon by Jimmy
Petrillo OF the musicians and
John Lewis of the miners, IL
might rise 10 10. IS or more
billions year.
There is no legal limit so the
only limit is the peoples ability
10 pay.
But IL the Roosevelt party
could be assured $4,000, 900 tax
able subjects in unions then, at
the modest rate of $50 a year, 1,
including initiation fees, special
assessments and dues. there
would be an assured increase Of
$1,000, ,000, 900 a year, available
for politics.
We have seen and come 10
accept as normal practice many
of the oblique pressures which
the party, itself. through the
government agencies. employs
to drive people into unions, sup
plementing the more directly
brutal methods of the unioneers
themselves.
An individual worker Is q no
body and the hidden meaning
of Roosevelt's phrase "the for
gotten man" reveals itself dawn
ingly. day by day.
The individual can't get a
raise, even though he has earned
it and the employer wants to
pay him what he is worth.
But a union can get a raise
for a hundred or a thousand
employees.
The unioneers and. for that
matter. Mrs. Roosevelt, herself,
have emphasized this fact as an
advantage of union member
ship.
Many workers, possibly a ma
jority of them, think this 10 f1ne
and their loyalty to unionisn
and the Roosevelt party has
been intensified.
If, in the long run. they son-
tinue to think so, even though
they realize In a dim and pain.
less way that they have sold
their individuality for a few
cents an hour. that will be their
choice and their fate.