Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30
FAIR
ENOUGH
BY Westefeek :,
pegIer q


the strike OF the United
Auto Workers against General
Motors will develop into a gen.
eral strike across the country.
partly by the cooperation OF
sympathetic unions in other
industries and. for the re-
mainder. by the necessity OF
still other industries 10 shut up
shop for lack OF materials and
markets for their products.
Initiation, want, vast unrest.
rising 10 violent disorder and
even revolution are the OBJ
vious probabilities and certainly
are the design of the Com.
muniSts engaged in this at
tempt.
But another probability is tho
passage Of sound laws for the
control Of organizations which.
at present, have the power 10
overthrow the government on
the pretext Of legitimate dis
putes over wages.
TT HAS been noted that ZOE
L the first time since 1888 4
president Of the United States,
Mr.. Truman, recently admon-
iShed unions in way 10 put
the public interest and the ma
tlonal welfare above the Will
of union executives who in.
variably engineer and manage
such strikes. with a pretensA
that they are merely obeylng
the expressed will Of their SUBJ
Ject members.
In the General Motors strike
II may be admitted, only for
the sake Of argument. that the
vote was legitimate, with re-
mlnder. however, that in ihs
AlllS-Chalmers strike of the
same union. during Stains
collaboration with Hitler. Com
munistS in the JAW caused
1000 fraudulent votes 10 bs
cast and counted
The purpose there was 20
keep this country weak in arms
and the tools Of production and
20 prevent Our helping Britain
IN her war against Stains ally,
Adolf Hitler.
But, even granted that The
vote vas honestly conducted
and counted Tins time. me fact
remains that the issue which
caused the strike VAS not crc-
ated by the rank and file bat
cooked up by the union eXecu-
tlNeS.
The issue - 30 per cent n
crease IN pay with A prov 30
that no part of This increase
should be passed along 10 the
consuming public.
NATURALLY, a 30 per cent
~ raise appeals 10 the work.
ers but the insistence against
any increase in the sale price
OF cars is a device OF the little
group Of union executives 10
Jimmy their way into the mas-
agement Of the company by
searching IT'S books. which are
private property, just as the
union Z books are. and debating
the degree Of Us profits. If any.
To the communists, the alter
native OF a national general
strike and us consequences -
even more desirable than no
smaller step toward union rule
Of industry.
This intention vas revealed
inadvertently about The time
that Franklin D. Roosevelt VAS
being nominated for his fourth
term when union agent told
an executive Of company
manufacturing ball and roller
bearings that, when Russia vas
saved from Hitler, the Ameri-
can Communists would slash At
the jugulaT
Gen. Carl Spaatz. striking
from England, had crippled
Germany'S production OF bear
lngS for marine equipment, land
vehicles and countless machines
Of war production. by bombing
The German bearing factories at
SchWeinfuri.
The Communists made note
Of this for future action
Al present this threat is being
fulfilled in Canton. O. and Phlla-
delphia by subjects OF Phillip
Murray the president Of The
Go. who have even prevented
executives from entering their
offices and by force Of numbers.
have produced anarchy through
intimidation ~ the police The
courts and the elected public
officials
EVERYTHING that rolls on
- wheels requires PcarlnGS.
Engines require tt1rru- Railroad
equipment now badly dllapl-
dated and SCant. cannot move
or even be produced without
them
In collaboration with he
bearing workers the Auto Work.
erS' Union now strikes General
Motors and the results ramlly
way back TO the mines and
forests. the glass factories,
through the railroad and motor
freight lines, into every conceive
able area and racacc of ccO-