Evening star., 1946-05-13

unable to maintain a decent self
respect or protect the lives of the
people from the arrogance and
greed of as tough a set of profess
sional labor bullies as has ever been
known.
Acquired Power.
This Is not exaggeration. 1t is a
bald statement of fact. In alliance
with the late Mr.. Roosevelt and
with a Supreme Court packed for
them by him, the big union bosses
have acquired unprecedented legal
authority and political power. AS
q result, they now threaten to domi-
nate the Democratic party and to
COW the Republicans.
We ought to face the facts. AS
. result of 13 years of shameful
political coddling and presidential
suhservience, these labor profession
ais have built themselves up to the
point where they actually aspire to
run the country, which undoubtedly
they are on their way to do-unless
we quickly recover our manhood
and slap them down.
The giddy whirl of international
Affairs, coupled with multitude of
postwar domestic problems, has
combined to bewilder the average
American and prevent him from
seeing this labor domination clear
ly. It is further obscured by the
unprecedentedly elaborate and ex-
pensive CIO publicity machine. It's
size, cost and character are story
by themselves. 1t is enough now to
say that no other propaganda any,
where approaches it in volume and
extent. However, 1t has not pre-
vented those capable of discern
ment from appreciating the full
design of this concededly Commu-
nist-fiavored organization. They
know that the men who run it have
plans far more ambitious than
merely to raise the wages and liv-
Ing level Of industrial workers.
Millions to Be Spent.
Today political power is their
great goal, to attain which millions
Of dollars are being expended and
4S States drenched with "litera-
ture." The extraordinary widening
Of CIO activities in recent years is
significant. Observers have seen
this agency this year launch union
OF Government employees with a
strike provision in its charter. And
they have seen 1t edging into our
great humanitarian and charitable
agencies, such as the Red Cross.
With the latter, it revealed its
real purpose when, after learning
that the Red Cross, compelled by
widespread protest, would not renew
a contract that never should have
been made, it publicized a critical
letter declining to renew" on the
ground that it was not accorded
sufficient participation" in policy
The net of all this is that the
time has arrived for the showdown.
The day is now at hand when the
Senate will have to prove whether
it is composed of men or mice.
The opportunity exists now to so
restore the health of the emascu-
lated Case bill as to protect the
public interest. There is the best
chance in years to enact a law that
will end this unsound claim of the
sacred right to strike" and make
1t impossible in the future for any
set Of labor bosses to strangle the
national economy-and bludgeonI
any community into submission.
There are resting in Senate COM
mittees now several bills which can
be offered as amendments, and
which not only are badly needed
for the safety of the people as a
whole but which are essential to
the dignity of the Federal Gov
eminent. II, with the temporary
passing Of the acute crisis, public
sentiment again subsidies and the
desire of the Senate to act at last,
weakens, it will be a shocking
thing. If a last-minute truce" once
more averts action, it will be a vic
tory for the labor racketeers, stamp