The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-28
Fair Enough
Bv WEsTBROOK PEGLER

books for the Political Action Commlltee OIL
the CLIO. and calls himself Joseph Gaer'
meaning, as he says, stranger altnougn MS
square name in the old country was Eli Fish
man?
T was going over a batch Of P.A.C. pam
nhlets bearing his name with a man who
specializes in communist propaganda and po-
litical filtration and he said, notice the bug
The bug is that little blurred mark, the
printers union label, and this bug on the
P.A.C. propaganda carried the No. 412. My
friend said, look up the report OF the Dies
Committee on that"
On page It'll of its official report to Con-
sress, the committee said "the new union
press (union label 412) Gs) a dummy corpo-
ration for the prompt press"
On page 1911 the report said: Union label
412 appears on work done by the new union
press. The latter is a dummy corporation
which uses the presses and other fixtures OF
the prompt press. Through a bookkeeping
transaction in 1889, the prompt press, which
had a judgment Tor s., 1000 against the Daily
Worker, official organ of the communist party
in the United States, took over the furniture
and fixtures of the Daily Worker and then
leased them to the Daily Worker New York
Post, Aug. 8, 1880. The bulk Of the literature
of the communist party is printed under union
label 209 by the prompt press. During the
period of 1888 to 1885, the New York telephone
OlIeClOIy ASleo uNe p1OIllpt p1CSS I - coo
Thirteenth street, the address Of the commu-
must party and the Daily Worker"
Among the organizations a n d publications
patronizing the new union press, the COM
mittee listed the American Communications
Association, which is heavily infested with
communists and a partner in the combination
Of maritime and longshore unions that have
toed the communist party line. Recently, by
a strike, the AGA. BACKED out news from
overceoc Including reuS If tho pariS copfnr.
ence. The Newspaper Guild Of New York and
the United Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers Of America, both clio. unions and
both victims of communist infection Cor years,
although probably few of their rank and file
members are communists, also were named
as clients of the new union press.
A sample Of Joseph Gaer's educational
preaching to the American voters is found on
page 10 Of pamphlet 10, published by the
P.A.C. of the CLIO. under label 4l2.
This pamphlet is entitled when a Worker
Needs a Friend. the words of the title
on the cover except friend are in black on
white but the word friend is in white
against a red field.
On page 10, Gaer writes that the waiting
period before an unemployed worker may re-
ceive unemployment benefits should be re-
duced to one week and that these benefits
should be given for as long as the worker
remains unemployed" He also advocates an
increase in unemployment payments. This is
not communism according to Soviet Russia's
practice. In Russia, Ivan works or he doesn't
eat, or he goes to a concentration camp or
a firing squad. But the communists in the
United States have been promoting unemploy-
ment pay even COR loafers as a means of
frustrating reconversion and high industrial
production and breaking the Treasury. They
have found many propagandists in left wing
politics here willing to 60 along with them
because, no doubt about it, some Americans
would be in favor of perpetual pay for per-
petual idleness and would support anyone who
promised them that.
The American Veterans Committee, known
as the AVG, Inc, incidentally, has gone most
OF the way with Gaer on this proposal but
whether from juvenile and unthinking enthusi-
asm or for what other reason I can't make
out. Gaer, however, is no juvenile, having
been born in 1897 when Bessarabia was Rus
sian country, as it is again today, and he is
shrewd enough to have projected the conse-
quences OF his plan. He knows that in many
jurisdictions today a worker is deemed to be
unemployed and eligible for free pay from
the taxes, provided some union boss or COM
munist clique is kind enough to establish a
picket line to "prevent'' him from going to
work. He knows that his own CLIO. has the
power to create mass unemployment even
without calling strikes. An illustration occurs
IN the June issues of Drug News, the official
paper of local 1899 of the CLOS Retail Drug
Store Employees Union, which warns all
members that they are obliged to picket two
hours every two weeks "as part Of the organic
ing drive"
Here, picketed premises are not struck but
the employees could be unemployed" as long
as the union maintained the picket line and
thus would be eligible for long vacations on
unemployment pay: Gaer knows, too, that this
new practice has been shifting from the union
treasures to the public treasures the finan-
| cial burden of strike benefits. The union trea-
| suries remain intact and untaxed.
"A trade announcement recently stated that
Gaer had started a new book publishing firm
in New York, with whose money I am unable
to say and, ON inquiry, I discover that he has
been connected in the past with two other
book publishers whom most of us, I suppose,
regard as innocent and nonpolitical firms.
Now he is the CHEZ propagandist of the
P.A.C. of the CLIO. as such he did a book
after the 1914 campaign explaining
triumphantly how the Political Action Commit
tie herdad the vote to the polls and convinced
the voters by it's arguments. Also as such he
has written this series of primitive pamph-
lets, addressing the intelligence of the aver
age American voter in condescending and, pos
sibly, appropriate terms. These tracts are IL
Illustrated with kindergarten pictures, al
So deemed appropriate to the American 1ntelll-
gence.
am not sure his judgment of the George
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