Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-03
PERMANENTLY Bring Our Boys Home PROMPTLY
FAIR
ENOUGH
BY Westbrook
" Peeler

PegIer
NEW YORK, Jan. 2-Amon \
~ others who closely watcher
the work of the Political Ac-
ton Committee in the late cam
paign, I have realized that this
group accomplished a feat OF
organization and propaganda
the like of which this country
has never seen. Hitler and the
Nazi party performed similarly
in Germany, however, and the
Communists. who are never too
proud to adopt an effective
weapon OF the opposition.
learned lessons from them and
applied them to the election OF
Roosevelt.
Mr.. Roosevelt. of course, IL
able to say now that no single
group among the following that
piled up his relatively small
popular plurality was directly
responsible for his victory.
CIDNEY HILLMAN and the
~ Communists could not have
won for him without the solid
South which has a strong, II
currently dormant, anti-Jewlsh
and anti-Catholic prejudice Nor
could the solid South have put
him over without the efficient
help of the Catholics, Hague
and Kelly. and those who MAIN
tanned the solidarity OF the
Negro vote in important north
ern centers. But the fact per-
sists that in the industrial areas
the Political Action Committee
did organize the vote and turn
it out.
The more intelligent voters
were appealed TO with a more
restrained program OF adver-
tisements which Insinuated that
the husband and wife in mod.
est household would move ink
secure world of the futufs
with comforting supply OF
bonds and with prices mlracu-
lousy low and wages still high.
nevertheless.
IRON the standpoint nf re-
L suits, il was fine work, by
contrast with that OF the Re-
publicans.
Permeating all this. however,
was the class hatred of the
Communists and their artistic
insinuation whic convinced
many voters that Dewey was,
if not an outright Fascist. him.
self, then, anyway, the associate
and tool of Fascists, and that
he was a friend of the enemies
Of the Jews IL not Jew-balter
in secret, himself.
I ABOR was depicted as the
- victim and therefore, neces-
sariiy, the enemy OF capitalism
and all industry as the greedy
and unpatriotic oppressor of the
workers. In this propaganda.
be il remembered, the Commu-
nists are diligently educated and
trained They attend schools,
they are as fanatical as the
Nazis and, like the Nazis. they
learn TO wheedle with sympathy
as well as 10 organize mass
demonstrations and spontaneous
connections.
They enlisted many hollow
but pretentious and vain frauds
OF the radio, the movies. the
stage and the writing business,
including expert exhorterS with
no strong convictions but with
lust for publicity and import
ance who could deliver their
pieces with a tone Of conviction,
anyway.
TNHE result OF this electioH/
following three terms ~
Roosevelt. is that labor has
been Seduced into a mistaken
and. from its own standpoint. a
very dangerous position. Labor,
meaning those who believe in
unionism. is for political pur-
poses arrayed against capital.
Labor as thus defined has taken
the position that capital and
capitalism must be destroyed,
failing which capital will de-
Stroy labor.
Ignorant and selfish pomposi-
ties of the AL, while with
holding themselves from the
PAC because il was a political
branch Of the Go, nevertheless
promoted its program. These
comfortable and self-important
bosses lacked the intelligence 10
analyZe the final consequences
Of such a division in the nation
and the character 10 oppose IL
II they had discerned the conse-
quences.
NOW, as result. unionism n
~ more aggressive and dam
gerous than ever and il some
truly intelligent and patriotic
union leaders do not start or.
ganizing the counter-offensive
Immediately, the Communist
program will sweep along.
The Communists and the
PAC, though they won. have
handed over. free. a text book
and plans for counter-organ-
ization and counter-propa-