The union times., 1946-06-01
The PeOpe-The Court of Last Resort NEW HAVEN, CONN, SATURDAY, JUNE l, 1946 An Appeal To Reason
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what happened when Hitler into power, and drafted workers into the labor baalons of the Army
 At this point defenders of the Presidents proposal may that his emergency measure and therefore temporary The experience of history shows that every porary tends become Once
 President finds this convenient military resolving his labor headaches he will continue using and every Pres dent will it. President Truman asks to trust his good will and his proabor record In the dictator his people that he knows best what best for hem and they trust him to abuse his unlimited The Presidents hysterca performance this past weekend is happy augury of how he could be trusted keep his head in the fuure When is where (O paraphrase the famous of former Chief Justice Harlan SOne the only restraint he has is his eresran, he is longer officer of government He has set himself up God.
 This intolerabe prospect for American democracy appeal to the of involved to avert it.
 appeal the United States Senate: Subject the Presi dents bill the thoreughgOing debate. Hold up while the American people ponder and debate it. Do the obscene haste of the House of Representatives push through that will ensave American labor and shater American democracy There dOub for thing, to the bills consituonaliy The President is asking you put into uniform in peacetime and force them as soldiers to work on jobs that they will not work on civilians If that is peonage and involuntary servitude within the meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment, then hard to know what it.
 The Military Way Is Fascism
 appeal the President himself: Mir. President you can't nation in peacetme by laying hold of military remedy every time you find hard solve civilian prob m know how sOrey you have been beset by every kind of trouble by the lOcusague of crises that bedev Pres dent in crisis democracy But the lazy of solving probems-by placing under military dictator sp-is way The lazy way has always been the fascist way Democratic hard but it's stakes of freedom high Be honest with yourself and the country and withdraw your proposal
 Of course you have become hero Mr. President you hero to the wrong peOpe-to those who have wanted crack down labor all along and who delighted instrument It is easy win the applause of these You have only betray the people and keep berayng heand you will have the reactionares of both parties haing you the Nations But think think again. talking of whether you will forfeited chances for reelection Perhaps you feel must do duty and you lose the Presidency if. lost Ias<vO tO nk whether you willing carry the responsibility before history of having been the President under freeabOr snuffed out, the Nation entered the Gadarene slope swiftly to military fascsm.
 appeal to American labor: Forget your quarrels with each other, sink differences Unite against the men had been united before ths it could have happened This is the payof your disunity. know hatreds that exist between William and Philip Murray between John L. Lewis and Sidney Hman between Alex ander E. Whitney and David B. Robertson It utopian to